Friends & Family Album > Bees (6)
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Gheorghe & Me
Gheorghe Braileanu, a parishioner at Holy Cross, is helping me learn how to be a beekeeper. He kindly gave me two hives he had made, and is coaching me through my first year of beekeeping.
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Open.jpg
Here we are opening the hive to see how the bees are doing.
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A frame of honeycomb
Gheorghe has pulled out a frame and it looks good—the bees are “drawing out” honeycomb and gathering pollen and nectar, and raising new baby bees.
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Bee Veil
Here I am in my “bee suit” complete with veil. Bees like light colors, and are less disposed to attack someone wearing white.
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Honeycomb
A full comb of honey is surprisingly heavy!
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Ruth likes Honey
Granddaughter Ruth is fond of honey. Her mom, Jocelyn, and I put chunks of honeycomb in stockings and squeezed to separate honey from wax. The yield was about 5 cups honey, but only enough wax to make a vigil candle. Honeycomb is an extraordinary light, strong structure.