I relax best when I’m watching something else work really hard. Here’s a hummingbird in slow-motion (25% of normal) from last night. You can see his long tongue flick out at the very beginning. Also, backyard bird sounds at 1/4 speed are freaky!
Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Butch Cassidy
Fun trip!
New bees
My hive didn’t do so well over the winter. The queen is still there but I only found a few hundred bees around her (normal hive is in the tens of thousands – healthy hive is 70,000). I moved them to a nuc (small 5-frame box) to see if they can turn things around — if they do, I’ll have two hives.
I ordered a new package of bees, which I installed Saturday. Today I released the queen who stays in her own cage for several days until the new bees (who aren’t her kin) decide she smells ok and can be their matriarch. She has already mated with some drones in California, so she has all she needs to lay up to 2,000 eggs a day (less in the winter) for 5 years or so. The other bees’ job is to keep the queen alive and prepare cells so she can lay eggs that will hatch into their replacements. Tough life. After a month or so the whole hive will be the new queen’s progeny.
Here’s a little video, at half speed, of today’s hive entrance activity –
And some photos –
Peach blossom harvest
Peach blossom harvest
Orange-legged one on the right (facing down with spread wings) is bringing in pollen
Coming in for a landing
Installing the bee package (plastic white box at my feet)
Bees are pretty interested in the queen who is in that corner of the hive (but inside)
The Hills in New York City
April 2018 visit to NYC – lots of tourism, a Hamilton show, and Nate Bargatze.
Manhattan LDS temple
Rockefeller Plaza – NYC
The Empire State Building
Bad portraits for cheap! Central Park
Trinity Church – NYC – burial place of Alexander Hamilton and family
Empire State Building
Brooklyn bridge
Ellis Island tour
Rockefeller Plaza – NYC
Dome of Federal Hall – NYC
Bike tour of Central Park
Hot Dogs and Pretzels
Brooklyn bridge
Empire State Building – GoPro fisheye lens
New York
Brooklyn bridge
Cafe Wha? – old Bob Dylan hangout in Greenwich Village
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Imagine monument – Strawberry Fields, Central Park
Manhattan view from Ellis Island ferry
Bike tour of Central Park
Times Square statues of liberty
Alexander Hamilton’s grave – Trinity Church, NYC
Radio City Music Hall on a foggy night
Times Square red steps
Trinity Church – NYC – burial place of Alexander Hamilton and family
The bridge from Home Alone 2
Chrysler Building
Bike tour of Central Park
Rockefeller Center – NYC
Matching poses in the subway
View from Ellis Island
Lighting a candle in Trinity Church
Yes to Lox, no to locks – Brooklyn Bridge
Outside Rodgers Theater the day before Hamilton
Brooklyn bridge
Manhattan view from Ellis Island ferry
Statue of Liberty finally visible through the fog – view from Ellis Island
Ice skaters – Rockefeller Plaza
St. Luke and St. John
New Amsterdam
St Patrick’s Cathedral – NYC
The bridge from the snowball fight in Elf – Central Park, NYC
View from Central Park – NYC
View from Central Park – NYC
View from Central Park – NYC
New York Stock Exchange
Times Square
Brooklyn Bridge
Outside Rodgers Theater the day before Hamilton
Outside Rodgers Theater the day before Hamilton
Nate Bargatze at Caroline’s Comedy
Outside Rodgers Theater the day before Hamilton
Times Square red steps
Alice in Wonderland – Central Park, NYC
We are probably the lowest priced in the city
Eliza Schuyler Hamilton’s grave – Trinity Church, NYC
Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song)
An old, old folk song – first recorded in 1909. Covered by the likes of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Jeff Buckley over the years. My favorite version is from the soundtrack of Inside Llewyn Davis (which I haven’t seen) – beautiful harmonies by Oscar Isaac and Marcus Mumford. Here’s my attempt at beautiful harmonies by me and me.