Swarm season for the honey bee has started in California. The beekeepers are tell us that in the next two weeks we should start seeing a whole lot more bees as the weather warms up. The picture above is a swarm. If you see a swarm please go to the the Santa Clara Valley Bee Guild website and click on their swarm list. There are several members who will come out and pick the swarm. Make sure to ask if they charge anything for coming out. Some charge, others don't. The photo below is what is call an "extraction". The bees are established, so most of the beekeepers coming out will charge to remove them.
Flat Fish Paper Arts was born many years ago when blogging first started. My family did a lot of camping and diving along the California coast. California halibut are huge fish that start out as any normal fish. As they age, one eye will start to move to the other side and the halibut will become flat so it can lay on the bottom of the ocean with both eyes facing up.
I always like the idea that we all start out the same but life experiences slowly changes us. In my case, my creative talents went the way of paper arts. Flatfish are always looking up when they mature and as with any artist, we see inspiration in everything around us - always looking up.
Evan and her flatfish
Years ago a local dive shop had a photo of a diver who caught a halibut so big he had to throw it over his jeep to take the picture. Our little spoof with our daughter sitting in her toy jeep with dad's halibut on the hood. 1987
Swarm season for the honey bee has started in California. The beekeepers are tell us that in the next two weeks we should start seeing a whole lot more bees as the weather warms up. The picture above is a swarm. If you see a swarm please go to the the Santa Clara Valley Bee Guild website and click on their swarm list. There are several members who will come out and pick the swarm. Make sure to ask if they charge anything for coming out. Some charge, others don't. The photo below is what is call an "extraction". The bees are established, so most of the beekeepers coming out will charge to remove them. 
1 comment:
The top pic looks like a heart shape... I thought you were featuring that for Valentine's Day!
DeniseB
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