06-22-2009, 11:51 PM | #916 |
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Newly acquired white betta fish:
Damned hard to photograph. They never hold still for you.
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06-23-2009, 07:07 AM | #917 |
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I have a bluegill that I caught as a minnow about 2 yrs ago and I can't get a decent shot of him because of the glare from the tank.
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06-23-2009, 07:28 AM | #918 |
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Nice bees, nowhereman.
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06-23-2009, 02:56 PM | #919 |
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Thanks - I'll try the post again. (Technology is our friend, yes?)
Anyway, RF last week with "the girls". 2 hives, about 30,000 "pets". |
06-23-2009, 03:28 PM | #920 | |
We have to go back, Kate!
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*smiles* my Dad was a bee keeper when I was growing up. That picture there looks so familiar. Many different details, but the gloved hand and the bees held out for a look. That resonates with me.
Wonderful pics. I've always loved bees.
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06-25-2009, 06:29 AM | #921 |
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Thanks Dana. My Dad was a beekeeper also - kept 4 or 5 hives for years. My Mom's father and uncle had about 30 hives at one point, that's where Dad learned about beekeeping. A swarm showed up last year in one of his old empty hives and I thought that maybe that was a sign, a gift from him. He's been gone for 3 years now, and I feel him with me when I'm out there with the bees.
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06-25-2009, 11:14 AM | #922 |
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A Bee Poem For You:
The Arrival of the Bee Box I ordered this, clean wood box Square as a chair and almost too heavy to lift. I would say it was the coffin of a midget Or a square baby Were there not such a din in it. The box is locked, it is dangerous. I have to live with it overnight And I can't keep away from it. There are no windows, so I can't see what is in there. There is only a little grid, no exit. I put my eye to the grid. It is dark, dark, With the swarmy feeling of African hands Minute and shrunk for export, Black on black, angrily clambering. How can I let them out? It is the noise that appalls me most of all, The unintelligible syllables. It is like a Roman mob, Small, taken one by one, but my god, together! I lay my ear to furious Latin. I am not a Caesar. I have simply ordered a box of maniacs. They can be sent back. They can die, I need feed them nothing, I am the owner. I wonder how hungry they are. I wonder if they would forget me If I just undid the locks and stood back and turned into a tree. There is the laburnum, its blond colonnades, And the petticoats of the cherry. They might ignore me immediately In my moon suit and funeral veil. I am no source of honey So why should they turn on me? Tomorrow I will be sweet God, I will set them free. The box is only temporary. --Plath
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06-25-2009, 03:41 PM | #923 |
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That's great - I'll print that and hang it with my bee supplies. Thanks for sharing it.
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06-25-2009, 04:12 PM | #924 |
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Hey. Didja know that it's National Pollinator Week? Nationally recognized. No jokin'. There's a story about it on NPR
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06-25-2009, 05:54 PM | #925 | |
We have to go back, Kate!
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nowhereman that's really lovely. To have that direct connection. *smiles*
@ Bri: that's a brilliant poem. I love it! I really should revisit Plath now I am not an overly cynical teenage college student.
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06-25-2009, 11:54 PM | #926 |
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Non news...
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06-27-2009, 03:08 PM | #927 |
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What storm?
I mean I always creep under this shelf to sleep right? What do you mean my belly is on /jjjjjjjjj;s rrrrrrrrhgb z\ae |
06-27-2009, 07:46 PM | #928 |
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Our newsest pack member. We just adopted her today. Isn't she absolutely gorgeous?
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06-27-2009, 07:51 PM | #929 |
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06-27-2009, 08:22 PM | #930 |
“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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Sugar. I see red x boxes. You must be using photobucket or another similar place that is blocked by our filters.
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