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Last week while on an early morning walk along Spanish Fork River I decided I wanted to capture a bit of the beauty I saw, so I began looking around and I found these elements which I then turned into small terrariums.
Some friends and I went for a few drinks on Wedneday and this is a photo of Mason laughing at the way I was putting salt on my fries,
An antique Ball-Mason Jar sits near the window reflecting the early morning light. A texture was added to this image to create an artistic feel.
This is a Mason Wasp or Australian Hornet but it is often confused with a Potter Wasp. They are all part of the mud building wasp (sub-family Euneninea). They grow in size from 30-40 mm, pack a vicious sting although not aggressive and are part of the Australian native pollinators. They feed on nectar and collect particular types of spider to feed their young – the spiders are injected with a poison that preserves their body until the young larvae are ready to eat them.
Malua Bay
Mason takes a break from the Bunny 500.
Mason currently lives at the Austin Animal Center and is available for adoption through the House Rabbit Resource Network.
This is a section of a statue I pass most days on campus. George Mason's hand rests on Locke, Hume, and Rousseau. It's not exactly subtle, but then again, I have a nagging feeling that far too many students couldn't explain the relationship between the university's namesake and those authors. What can I say, I'm doing what I can to work on that ;)
This is Baby Mason. He was born about a month early so his lungs were "wet" so he has the feeding tubes in and is in NICU. Other than this is healthy and should be fine and be able to go home in the next week.
I purchased my first, solitary, bee hotel in the spring of 2018. It was quickly discovered by Mason and Leafcutter bees and by the end of the first summer, I had almost "full occupancy." The bee hotel was placed on a shelf in the garage for the winter to protect the developing larvae from sub-zero temperatures. The following spring, it was placed back on the front porch in the same location near the garden where the bees forage. Unlike, honey bees, solitary bees only travel a few hundred feet from where they emerge. I added a second bee hotel during the early summer of 2019 and both hotels had nearly "full occupancy" by the end of the summer of 2019 and again in 2020. It has been amazing to observe the female bees go back and forth from the garden collecting pollen, cutting bits of plant material or gathering mud, then returning to the bee hotel to begin the egg laying process. Once they choose a “nesting tube” they crawl to the far end to begin. The female bee places her provisions, pollen with some sticky nectar that she rolls into a ball, then lays a single egg on the top. Next, she seals the egg into a “cell” with mud or leaf material (depending on which species she is) and repeats this process until the tube is filled the whole way to the front. One female solitary bee can lay about 5-15 eggs depending on the length of the tube. Once the eggs hatch, the larvae feed on the provisions, then form cocoons, and don’t emerge until the following spring. Each year, I would bring the bee hotels out from winter storage, but missed their emergence in 2019 and 2020. However, on March 31, 2021, our first really warm day, I happened to look out the kitchen window, which faces the porch and noticed a swarm of small bees flying around the bee hotels, the porch and even resting on the aluminum siding of the house. They were warming themselves in the sun! I was able to determine that these were all Mason Bees because the bees that were emerging were all breaking through the tubes that were sealed with mud. I observed the male Mason bees fly back to the nesting holes to check on whether the female bees were emerging. The males could apparently detect where the females were and would remain on the bee hotel, to attempt mating as soon as a female came out or would even enter the tube to mate before she emerged. At times, several male bees would pile onto the female, fighting to mate with her, often falling to the ground. As each new bee made its way to the opening of a tube, their tiny faces could be seen peering out from the tubes. Each emerging bee would cautiously come to the edge, clean their antennae with their feet, quiver for a moment, then take their first flight! Since the weather has turned cold again and there aren't many flowers yet, the bees are staying inside. On the intermittent warm days, they emerge to work on cleaning out the tubes, as evidenced by bits of dried mud all over the porch, just below the bee hotels!
As of the time of this posting, the Leafcutter Bees have not emerged, as the holes are still sealed with the plant materials used. This photo series was taken over two hours and is only a small portion of the total number taken of the amazing event.
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A pizza rolls through the oven at Marion's Piazza in Mason. The Dayton-based chain opened its ninth location and first Cincinnati area restaurant at 6176 Soundwave Blvd. on Nov. 13, 2012. The Enquirer/Rachel Richardson
I took this shot of my ice cream-smudged almost two-year-old great-nephew (that was a lot of hyphens right there) as he was running around out a few days ago. Getting photos of him is difficult because he rarely holds still.