Think Like a Bee

In the interconnected web that we all are a part of, it is impossible to discount the mystery of honeybee and human relationship throughout the centuries. We have been inextricably bound to a common fate, dependent upon the honeybee’s free pollination services. Our whole food system relies on this gift. And then there are our…

Some days are like that…messy, anxiety producing and hard. In the bee and human world alike. On those days I don’t wonder what bees think, I wonder what I was thinking when I took up this little hobby in a moment of passion. My spiritual teacher calls bees my muse, a source of artistic expression.…

…So begins a chapter in Margaret Wheatley’s new book called “So Far from Home: Lost and Found in Our Brave New World”(San Francisco, CA: Berret -Koehler Publishers, Inc, 2012). As someone who’s studied complex systems, quantum science and organizational change, she admits in this book that all that hopey changey stuff and our hard work…

In 2011, Lockwood Restaurant on Monroe Street in Chicago set up their own apiary on the rooftop garden.  It has created a buzz amongst culinary tasters and food cuisine writers. Blending home-grown flavor and garden fresh produce, they are becoming part of a new trend of chefs who are looking to grow their own food.…

  Albuquerque has our very own locally owned Farm to Table restaurant, with Chef Carrie outstanding in her field. Recently, on the Food Network’s “Chopped” show—Chef Carrie won $10,000 for her trouble to create the best appetizer, entree and dessert.   Years ago, when I first started keeping bees, I woke up to how critically…

It seems only fitting, during June as pollinator month, to celebrate food. Food, glorious food. I do love food. Let me qualify that. I love good food. Sean Brock is a rockstar in the world of food and cheffery. His cuisine is found in Charleston, North Carolina at McCrady’s and Husk. My husband Kenneth is…

Dear Bee Friends and Protectors, June is Pollinator month. We celebrate all pollinators for our food and the sheer beauty of flowers that grace our days. Think Like A Bee is doing a Swarm funding event through the month of June 2017 (aka crowdfunding in bee language). In order to help  fund our ongoing work…

We as a human community are trying to figure out these days what it means to live together. The ancient ones, honeybees also known as apis mellifera, figured that out many, many moons ago. To go into a beehive is to learn a lesson about taking care of the common good. The 80,000 workers living…

Bees are not all gentle and sweet smelling of honey, though I do love that about some of my hives. As you heard from my last post, the hive mind can be testy and irritable and pesky towards intruders. But they also visit brutal things upon their own kind. Which in a weird way is…

I have a hot hive in my backyard. I know I need to take them far away from town, down to the farm in the valley where there are no people. I like to think of myself as a bee whisperer. They remind me that this is hubris. I am freaked out by their kamikaze…

…not the psychedelic kind, but the fungi kind. Paul Stamets, founder of Fungi Perfecti, has been studying mushrooms for decades. His love affair with mushrooms was inspired by his brother who traveled south to Mexico and Colombia in the 1970’s looking for the “magic mushrooms”.  You know. The kind that make you happy. Paul became…

These lovely little signs for your garden and yard are available at the Albuquerque Garden Center. 10120 Lomas Blvd. NE, open 9:30-2:30 M-F. Call them for more information @ 505-296-6020. These were designed and created for our Burque Bee City USA resolution party— the brainstorm of Sally Vance, with the support of the Xeric Garden…

Some weeks are harder than others. Even as the night temperatures plunge towards freezing again, my bees thrive and expand. For me, nature in all her resilient generosity and reciprocity is a testament to life. Even when the powers of the world seem hell bent on destroying all that we cherish as life. Even as…

One of my favorite bee mentors, TJ Carr, an elderly gentleman perennially clad in blue denim overalls, once told me that Palm Sunday was the indicator for the beginning of bee swarm season here in the southwest. But with the early onset of a warm, dry Spring, it’s looking like swarm season has already started.…

I heard a good joke today. Noah’s wife: We lost the bees! Noah: Bummer. Did you check the ark hives? Meg handed me the U.S. Catholic magazine with this little gem as I walked into the Norbertine Community in Southwest Albuquerque today. A monkish community—they are not cloistered, but rather deeply engaged in ecumenical work…

As the warmer temps crept up this past week here in Albuquerque, I began visiting my hives, readying them for the Spring bee keeping season.   Since all my ladies are flying in my home bee yard, I started with the three beehives at the organic farm in the South Valley, followed by two at…

My dentist is a very well read and smart man. He and I often talk bees and human environmental toxins, since we share a passion for these things. Recently, at my regular cleaning visit, he handed me a very useful tool. It was a PLU code guideline for reading food labels which determines whether what…

“Fire in the Sky” read the neon paper sign on its wire frame, blown flat at the Kidron Evergreen Park in Northeast Ohio. The woods were populated with Morgan Horses, the graceful and beautiful beast of burden that most Amish prefer. Tied to trees, their harnesses were lifeless and pelts wet from hauling their masters into town…

Who knew? There is an Irish patron saint of bees. And a woman at that! February 12 is the celebration of St. Gobnait, 6th century patron saint of healing for the sick. In 2008, I visited Ballyvourney, County Cork where the shrine built for Gobnait in the 12th or 13th century still stands. On the…

A country is only as great as how it treats its most vulnerable. In a deeply disturbing move last week, the USDA mysteriously removed the website on animal welfare inspection reports. Advocacy groups, journalists and other members of the public have used the information to track any potential history of abuses on the part of…

Originally posted on Think Like a Bee: Author Ken Wilbur, recently addressed the critical intersection of human spiritual development that we are facing. He basically said that we have created a society that has lapsed into individualism, narcissism (“my opinion” at the expense of everyone else’s) and nihilism. Over decades, truth has become a casualty…

Author Ken Wilbur, recently addressed the critical intersection of human spiritual development that we are facing. He basically said that we have created a society that has lapsed into individualism, narcissism (“my opinion” at the expense of everyone else’s) and nihilism. Over decades, truth has become a casualty of such individualism. I get to define…

Millions of women marched across time zones on January 21. Peacefully. In a remarkable show of soulforce, women came out around the world. (Chicago Women’s March, January 21, 2017) Like the girls of the hive, they were multitudinous. Their voices heard ringing from cities and towns everywhere. Pink, Yellow and Black.The new colors of the…

A big thank you to the New Mexico based Lineberry Foundation, who gifted Think Like A Bee with a New Year grant! Honoring the remarkable memory of it’s founders, this family is making New Mexico a better place by their charitable grants—from children to bees. We are grateful for this surprising and Providential grant. It…

I’m not talking about the drones that fly and spy in the sky on search and destroy missions… I’m talking about the drones in the queendom of apis mellifera. Larger in stature than their sisters, they have big heads, no stinger, and eat three times their sisters weight in the hive. The drones only role…

If there’s one thing I know about bee life, it’s that each generation of bees will sacrifice everything for the next gen. By the time she dies, the worker bee wings will become threadbare and tattered—30 days of hard work for the community, culminating in field work, the pinnacle of selfless service. The queen will…

Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous error!— that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: Along which secret aqueduct, Oh water, are you coming to me, water of a new life that I have never drunk? Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous error!— that I had a beehive…

As the country lurched towards the new year, we free fell into the darkness together. In this hemisphere, Winter Solstice arrived right on time. Wednesday 4:44am exactly, Central Time, December 21. Light and dark tarried together, side by side. The long night seemed to swallow the light..at least for 24 hours. Now the balance is…

The coming of the dark, that is. I am trying to stay with the Solstice dark. It seems so profound some days. Here in Central Minnesota, I awaken to the dark at 7am. I come home to the dark at 7pm. The temperatures hover in single digits, the snow falls, the trees look like scarecrows.…

As we toil towards Winter Solstice in this hemisphere, I will continue to ruminate on the darkness. Despite the Standing Rock triumph of an easement denied to Dakota Access Pipeline yesterday, the pipeline projects are not dead.  They are proliferating everywhere. It is the last gasp of the fossil fuel industry’s greed, intent on squeezing…

The title of the acclaimed novel by Anthony Doerr (Simon & Schuster, 2014) begins in the dark, 1944 Germany, a blind girl in a small town on the Coast of Brittany, France, 1944, waiting alone in a house for the bombs to fall. My brother highly recommended this book to me. In this tightly woven…

So now that we have our clarion call as humanity to wake up!, we can no longer rest on our laurels, take more than we need, forget the vulnerable, and isolate from one another. There are powers and principalities of hatred increasingly arrayed against the forces of love and healing. We will see the mainstream…

The tectonic plates in our shared polis shifted this past week. Some might say there were winners and losers. I’m of the mind that we all lost. Forgive me if I’m stating the obvious, but couldn’t all the money raised, spent and squandered by all parties in this 2 year political slog have shifted a…

Yesterday I could feel the tide of collective societal anxiety rising as we inch closer to November 8. I became lonely for bees. The bee hive has been a place of solace for me, contemplative peace and that which is life affirming. So I went looking on a 70 degree F day in Minnesota. I…

  My sojourn in Minnesota has been a time to live a more contemplative life. I awaken as the dawn barely lifts the morning sky. I read or do some morning stretching and meditation. On my “busy” days, I go to the gym and lift weights and run on the elliptical for 1/2 hour. The…

Our country has slogged through a two year political season. Mercifully, the election at least, will soon be over.  I’m still trying to figure out how to think about this time. It’s felt like a great big public brawl. The kind where we are down in the mud with each other. It’s plowed up things…

I am currently in a place that makes my heart sing everyday. I live beside a lake in Minnesota. Some days when I’m walking the wooded trails, not another human being in sight, I pinch myself (in my mind) to make sure this is happening. I am blessed in this moment. I give thanks. Every…

If I were alone in a desert and feeling afraid, I would want a child to be with me for then my fear would disappear and I would be made strong. This is what life itself can do because it is so noble, so full of pleasure and so powerful. But if I could not…

I just returned from Standing Rock, North Dakota. A young street artist noted, as I painted a bee on his community canvas, “This is just like a beehive!”. We marveled at the amazing gathering of people from around the world, all entering into an alternative world of the gift economy. Like the bees, everywhere you…

There is a little squirrel that visits me daily. Or at least I am filled with enough hubris to think she is visiting me. Her job is to find and secure nuts for the winter. She forages long into the day around my apartment here beneath the grand dames—the oak trees. But lest I think…

My trail to Central Minnesota for the Fall 2016 started with the bees…gaining a grant to write about beekeeping, which snowballed into the slippery slope of advocating for The City of ABQ protection of pollinator’s, and finally the gritty work of starting a Pollinator education organization which works with youth in the South Valley this…

My trail to Central Minnesota for the Fall 2016 started with the bees…gaining a grant to write about beekeeping, which snowballed into the slippery slope of advocating for The City of ABQ protection of pollinator’s, and finally the gritty work of starting a Pollinator education organization that works with youth in the South Valley this…

Today, even as I grieve the fact that the last vestiges of our family farm, my ancestral roots in North East Ohio, have been put up for sale today, I read the news from Standing Rock in North Dakota. Many peoples are coming together on Mother Earth to courageously and peacefully stand on the front…

Straight out of a Survivor episode, the past few days my girls have been industriously throwing out bee embryos. At first I panicked. Then as I read more about the possible causes of dead white embryos all around the entrance, I realized that they were thinking ahead and most likely exercising bee wisdom. Last I…

This little fashionista bee, which was also yummy by the way (thank you Jessie!), represents my feelings exactly. After a stunningly easy pass through of the Burque Bee City USA Resolution (“it was a love fest” as my friend Lynne so aptly put it), we are on our way. Likely the harder work lies ahead,…

BURQUE BEE CITY is a reality! Over a year later, after a rather amazing cast of volunteers called on City Councilors,  spoke at Neighborhood Coalition meetings, tabled at public markets, talked with nurseries, we finally have a Resolution in place that is law. It not only raises awareness about pollinators, but opens the door for…

It’s harvest time.. I’ve been awaiting this and dreading it for a few months now, knowing that processing honey without a machine is going to be, well, let’s just say time-consuming and sticky. But I am feeling a little bit giddy now that I’ve actually done the deed—pulling out about 8 bars of honey from…

I just got off the phone with the New Mexico Department of Ag. They will be sending me a bee researcher tomorrow to take a sample of my dying bees. It started about a week ago and it is still going on day by day. Very distressing to watch. Piles of them outside the hive,…

It was an experiment. One friend called it “swarmfunding” rather than crowdfunding. I like that. My goal was to see what happened. As of today, we have “swarmgathered” over $2,000!  That is a grand success for this first time. Thank you one and all for contributing. I am grateful for every single contribution, knowing that…

The world is a violent place. And it is a wondrous place. Still. We live in this tension daily and the challenge is how we respond to suffering and still give daily thanks for such an amazingly graced place to call home. This past weekend we were in Crestone, truly a village. A population of…

In these times of guns, war, police violence, racism, misogyny and a country burning down from it’s ignorance and fear I am writing. I am writing for my life I am writing to make sense of I am writing for the lives of those who come after me. I am writing because I want a…

It’s bigger than just one bee. It takes a village of bees to build a hive. One honeybee will make only 1/12 teaspoon of honey in their lifetime. It takes 80,000 or more bees to feed a hive and share that beautiful elixir of honey with humans. Honey bees are under no illusion that they…

….and Summer Solstice! June 20-26 is National Pollinator Week. I celebrate these amazing little workhorses who feed us free of charge by their pollinator services. This summer as I teach Albuquerque Public High School students the art of beekeeping, I am amazed that youth who have trouble attending in the regular classroom or struggle with…

So, on a lark, last year I dreamed up this idea of collaborating with Cornelio Candelaria Organic Farm in the South Valley and the NM Acequia Association to teach beekeeping and the art of farming to youth. I wrote a grant. It got funded by Albuquerque Community Foundation and now  we are in business. Last…

Dear faithful readers, This morning I awoke at 3am, anxiety ridden by a mind gone amuck with disaster remediation. I had seen the the official NBA size basket ball clump of bees hanging on the outside of my strongest hive before I went to bed. Our dinner guests, friends visiting from NYC, saw it. Their…

Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvellous error!— that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from all my old failures –Antonio Machado,”Times Alone” trans. by Robert Bly (Prayers for Healing, Berkeley, CA, Conari Press, 1997) I feel like I’m in Sunday…

“We live in a participatory universe”. So says Franciscan priest, Fr. Richard Rohr, Spiritual Teacher and author. He is quoting a little known British philosopher, author and poet named Owen Barfield(1898-1997).   These words continue to rise up like leaven in me, all these years later. I am still only a beginner in understanding the meaning…

How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of light against its being Otherwise we remain too frightened.  (Hafez, 14th c. Persian poet) This past week I spent a fair amount of time picking up a small swarm….it was a mess of…

  Bees have become popular little poster girls these days. We are increasingly aware of their decline and the critical role they play in pollinating all things food. In effect, they are life itself. We are enamored of them because they supply us with that sweetest elixir of all—honey. Perhaps you’ve heard of the new…

“What happens when you find joy unspeakable in an unspeakably joyless world? Does it change the world; does it change us or God? When I speak of joy, I refer to an exultation of body and soul that extends far beyond our ordinary pleasures. This is the true joy of life, the being used up…

It comes around every year. Drone Warfare. It’s ugly. The male bees, named drones, larger than their female counterparts have been raised for the sole purpose of mating the queens in the neighborhood. Their genetics are important, but their role is short lived. If their number is not called up for the mating flight, ensuring…

You nurture a hive through the winter, tending it like a baby. Then one day, due to such good care, the queen begins laying and laying and laying and laying…she lays so many eggs, evidently up to 2000 eggs a day, that soon the hive is packed with fuzzy little bee babies rolling around everywhere.…

The queen lives!   The colony will live on. The faltering hive, blended with a queen and her kin, is suddenly energized. She must be laying up a storm of eggs, for the girls are as busy as bees(excuse the trite expression) to bring in honey and pollen. Now they have a purpose in life. A…

So I did something daring today. I took a ridiculously successful, laying queen from one hive, and put her and some of her nursery babysitter bees into a hive that I deemed queen-less. I didn’t actually know this hive was queen-less, initially. I had been watching them for weeks as the weather warmed. They started…

I have made a conscious decision to keep politics out of my bee blog. I have succeeded. Mostly. But when I saw the story about Ted Cruz banning the musical tri-tone  (http://www.snopes.com/false-ted-cruz-tritone/) I lost my resolve. I changed my mind. In other words, I flipped out. I had a whole rant at the ready for…

  I’m quite sure you don’t love your weeds. But critters have a different experience of them. Just the other day I saw my cat making love to a pile of mustard greens that I had pulled. On her back, she rolled and nuzzled the wilted greens, cuddling them and tenderly sniffing something that most…

My Mennonite ancestors taught me to plunge my hands in the good earth. It was that body memory of farming the land and animal husbandry that eventually led me full circle to honeybees. As I hear the news of yet another mass shooting, this time in the tiny town of my alma mater, Hesston Kansas,…

Last weekend was the New Mexico Organics Conference. Celebrating 25 years, they noted that the market has ballooned to millions of $$$$ in sales, increasing at least 400% since it’s inception. The place was thronging with all ages. The attire ranged from heels and fancy clothes, coveralls, pointy toed cowboy boots/ hats to t-shirts and tattoos.…

Recently our Universe of New Mexico Astronomy department was notably part of an international team that found new galaxies in the Universe. Hidden away behind layers of dust and stars, drawing our Milky Way galaxy towards unimaginable new worlds were these superclusters of heretofore unseen galaxies. http://news.unm.edu/news/scientists-discover-hidden-galaxies-behind-milky-way http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/galaxy/ How rarely do I have the chance…

Bees are the ultimate life affirming of critters. Their buzzy, busy ways, communication patterns and how they work together to collaborate is a testament to the ideal of community. They show us how human communities can become life giving places for all, rather than profiting just a few. Their common labor is for the survival…

These days, bees teach me about some timeless truths.  I thought I knew those truths, but they’ve become neglected and buried in me over the years. Now that I am without a job, having left good work that gave me much meaning and purpose over a decade, there is a decided urge in me to…

Did you ever notice how just a tiny adjustment or shift can make a big difference in your life? On a freezing cold morning, sitting in an ever so slight ray of sun through a window, glancing on your back, the chill begins to thaw… A partner snoring on his back, keeping you awake, when…

As the bees hover suspended in their sleep, tucked away from the snow and cold, dreaming of the Spring cherry blossoms, we too are invited to slow our ever increasing speed and rest. We are called to inhabit the darkness and let it midwife our souls into a deeper peace, a larger reflection of our…

These are mean times we live in. It reminds me of Charles Dickens’s opening lines in A Tale of Two Cities, ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… Despite meanness, life affirming work continues to squish up through our commonwealth toes. Global grassroots organizers like Ruth Nyambura, a Kenyan political…

  My bees are confused. This winter, in a year of the warmest global weather trends on record, they go to hibernate as the temps drop nightly to 20 degrees F. But then the next day is 50-60 degrees and sunny. My girls are eager to come out and begin the search for food. Unfortunately…

Recently I shared this post on my facebook page, swiping it from another friend’s page (thank you Lynn!). It was a little clip from the Danville Bee, June 4, 1956—a story posted about a swarm of bees attending their keeper’s funeral in Adams, Massachusetts. “Throughout his life, John Zepka had raised, worked with, and loved…

I like to collect bee stories. This past week I went to see my friend Diane for Acupuncture (https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=Mother%20of%20Mercy). Diane is not only an amazing curandera, but also a devout Catholic dedicated to intercessory prayer on behalf of those who suffer —not only for humans but all living beings. She understands the one-ness of all…

I am done with great things and big plans. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillaries oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest of monuments of pride.  —William…

This week, Thursday, November 12, I go before the City of Albuquerque to begin the work of collaboration towards a pollinator friendly city. The heads of all departments that apply chemicals will be present. Parks and Rec, Open Space, Environmental Health, and Solid Waste. It is daunting and hopeful. I, along with the President of…

It was 8am and as the sky lightened, I began to see the dark silhouette’s of the trees emerge. It was my morning walk and in the distance I saw a lone figure digging in the ground, his pickup parked nearby. It was the nice neat lawns of the Presbyterian Seminary where a man in…

This week I am at a writing workshop in Louisville Kentucky. Since my writing project is about beekeeping, it often brings up bee jokes and bee references.  I was surprised to find a fellow beekeeper amongst our ranks during one of our morning writing exercises. It was a fiction piece, killer bees on the loose, and the…

  This week I am in Ohio, staying in our old family farmhouse. When I arrived my parents were excited to tell me of a development that has rocked the neighborhood.  A young pig has become a local celebrity.  He was an escape artist from the weekly farm animal auction. He has been living down…

So, I did it.  I went before the City Council, and it was a very positive and warmly received 2 minute (yep, that’s all I got) presentation on how we might become the very first Bee City USA in the Southwest—certainly in New Mexico.  I should’ve worn my bee suit.  Now why didn’t I think…

If I were going to think like a bee, I would imagine bubbles above their heads as they raced off into the sunlit morning, their golden bodies shimmering. “Maeve, there it is!  There’s that patch of flowers!”. “What?  O yes, I see it.  Let’s go, Stella!” “bzzzz. These flowers taste funny.  This nectar tastes a…

Bees, among other living beings on earth, are highly managed and manipulated by humans.  And still they assert themselves as wild, beyond our understanding, as seen by my last post on robber bees. Bees are a mystery, despite centuries of co-existence with them, observation and decades of scientific research. Recently an article showed up on…

This past weekend I was involved in an epic battle.  As a lifelong pacificist, growing up in an Historic Peace Church, it felt base, ugly and brutal.  I found myself doing things I’d rather not report.  All in defense of my beehive. Who knew these innocent, sweet, wondrous creatures could be so voracious? But I…

Today I went down to the Albuquerque Bosque (which in Spanish means “forest”). It is a strip along the river, with one of the largest contiguous cottonwood forests in the U.S. There I walked along the acequias—–an amazingly intricate web of waterways in the valley, connected to the Rio Grande.  It was created hundreds of…

O.k. you knew I’d get there, right?  You’ve probably been counting to 100 saying, “Wait for it”. So, here it is.  As a spiritual seeker, ordained person and beekeeper, with a blogpost called “Think like a Bee”, it’s time. So, I’ve been musing on this subject.  It is bigger than I.  I have a few…

Today I felt a little bit like Uncle Sam. (Why is this print green? Perhaps to highlight Uncle Sam’s favorite currency, the greenbacks…?)  Almost all my girls in the hive are struggling.  They have a bumper crop of brood and babies, and amazingly, prolific New Mexican born queens and no honey.  Yep.  A few weeks…

This past Saturday I received my Beekeeper Certification.  After two years of classes and fieldwork, 12 of us graduated with our pins and certificates of capability… or maybe just sheer stubborness.  One of our instructors, Susan, continues to comment that, like the t.v. show, we are the survivors. We began with 24 second year beekeepers…

Recently I met Lorenzo Candelaria, an heir to one of 6 original families from Spain who were deeded vast tracts of land in New Mexico.  He is part of 300 years of tradition—- land that has been in his family for 7 generations.  We connected at the Growers Market in my neighborhood where he was…

Is it just animal nature to fight?  After reading a whole book called Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive  by biologist, Mark Winston (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 2014) about how bees as a superorganism exemplify cooperation and communication, I find my newly acquired feral hive dragging bees out the door and throwing them off…

The appointed hour arrived at 7:45pm on Saturday night.  The storm clouds were cropping up in the western sky, warning us of the late night thunderstorms of the monsoon season. My friend Sarah arrived in her huge yellow GMC truck, ready to haul bees from near the base of the mountains, down to the valley,…

So this is what we beekeepers look like when we go out to visit our beeyards…and do cutouts. Some kind of outer space weirdos. This particular cut-out was on a piece of real estate in Placitas, New Mexico, atop a mesa, with a stunning view of the sunset. It was evening when I went in…

It was a day in the life…. per the photos above,  I had just retrieved a queenbee from one hive, ready to move her into another hive.  I was moving bees and bars around, feeling confident. But that feeling never lasts long when you are dealing with Mother Nature. Three weeks and many sagas of…

As an ordained minister, today is my first day of being congregation-less.  I resigned 4 months ago and my last day as a pastor of my flock was yesterday.  It was emotional.  A celebration and a sadness all at once. Not surprisingly, my bee life mirrors my real life at the moment.  I went out…

I know, I know, I promised a photo shoot of my bees this week… Due to technical difficulties, it will be delayed. Stay tuned. I share with you at least one fine image from the photographer who did the photo shoot.  He has a Nature gallery, chock full of glorious critters—-from hummingbirds to butterflies to…