Wallingford Turtle

A street mural in the Wallingford neighborhood in Seattle was created last weekend. The painting of turtle mural was designed my Maple Leaf artist Rachel Marcotte. It's at the intersection of 41st Street and Interlake Avenue North. The Wallingford neighborhood organized the project. I think is so cool how all the parts come together.
Art is such a great thing to share, so I think it's so wonderful that Wallingford created this public art for all to enjoy.

My Own Private Idaho

This was at Harrison Idaho on Coeur d'Alene Lake. This kind of sums up Idaho in a photograph.

Honey Bees

The Swarm

You might remember from and earlier post that I am now a beekeeper and I have two honey bee hives in my backyard. It's been a wonderful experience and the bees are so cool and fun to watch.
My first hive swarmed and went up into my bamboo trees. Bees swarm when the colony becomes to be too large and the bees divide up into a second colony. So I captured this swarm and started another hive. Then I noticed first hive had so many drones that the worker bees started kicking them out of the hive. Drones don't produce any honey, so I figure the workers became upset that they were consuming too much honey. The worker bees were just ruthless and kicked the larger drones to the curb. Here are a couple of videos that are a little rough and out of focus, but worth checking out.