This weekend we picked up and installed the honeybees and received the order of fencing materials.
And now, various animal and plant photos.
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| The bee packages loaded into the back of our car. The drive back with these bees is always lots of fun. |
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| We didn't get back to the ranch until the evening and it was getting quite cold, so we spent the night with the bees in the scamp. |
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| The four hives after a long day of installation. |
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| 66 rolls of high-tensile woven-wire fence |
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| 315 ten foot wooden posts (they'll be bringing in the other two bundles on Monday) |
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| 500 ten-foot t-posts |
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| Toad eggs. Toads lay their eggs as long tubes or stands, while frogs lay their eggs in large clumps. |
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| Frog eggs. |
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| Eastern Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans). |
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| Eastern Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans). |
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| A Water Strider. |
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| Amelanchier in bloom. |
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| Some sort of tiny bird-foot violet that carpets the pasture. |
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| An unknown flower also in the pasture. |