and a visit to Clare in Martha's Vineyard;
Heritage Lane fall block party
The Hives @ Wake Robin, 2011 season...
This summer's supply of honey was small throughout Vermont.
Well, as we live in Vermont, sure enough. It was small for Bill Ross and me!
Extracting the honey frames to see which we could take, and which we should leave for the bees to eat over the winter to survive.
Using the decapping tool to take the wax cappings off the cells of honey.
This is about 1/3 of our haul for the year. About 5 pounds of honey.
In total about 20 pounds of honey all taken from just one of Bill's hives - the five other hives were too lean to take any honey ;(
A beekeeper friend Bob S. wrote me:
Sorry about the low yield. Mine is low this year too.
I haven't extracted yet but the honey supers are off the hives and in my house.
I also heard of a semi-commercial beekeeper in Bennington who got
800 lbs last year and only 80 lbs this year - ugh!
Clare's Farm for the summer of 2010, and summer of 2011, through October
http://morninggloryfarm.com/
Random Martha's Vineyard photos
Susan, Marion, Clare, Char
Susan is a photography teacher on the Cape
Susan and Tom
Clare's pottery!
Harbor View Hotel
Employer of Ted during high school summers.
Light house at Edgartown Harbor
South beach. Can you see the guy in the sand pit to the left?
The Granary Gallery
Red Barn, West Tisbury
Antique toy truck - same design as Daddy's, only in dump-truck and not fire-engine model....
Dad's truck!
Visit to Chilmark Pottery
At the Gay Head clay cliffs
Memensha
Bunky and the barking company.
Preparing for a visit from Charlotte, Bunky created this arrangement and of course won our hearts
College Tour at Northeastern in Boston
Heritage Lane block party, 2011,
complete with sunset!
Anyone missing a laundry wheelie?
Monarch butterfly
Carrots gone wild.
