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The Cat in the Hat

 

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Kelly Mason, creator of Rock Star Cooking and CEO of Kelly Mason Productions.

Mason's Alex's Niehoff (3), left celebrates with her teammates after scoring in the second half.

April 22, 2022 - 16th Century Masons' Guild Hall located at Sint-Niklaasstraat 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium. I am not sure when the modern glass addition was added to the building. "The Masons’ Guild House was built in a flamboyant Gothic style opposite the Sint- Niklaaskerk to show off the stone carving skills of the city’s masons. It eventually disappeared behind a later building. People thought it had been demolished and so in 1913 a replica was constructed at Graslei 8. The original was later found during building work and six modern dancing figures were added at the top." Previous text from the following website: www.the500hiddensecrets.com/belgium/ghent/buildings/curio...

The entertainers at the Thredbo Blues Festival last month had me smiling from ear to ear. This little event takes place in the charming alpine village for which it is named, high in Australia’s Snowy Mountains. For two and a half days, the restaurants, bars, and public spaces are bouncing with joyful sounds.

 

I was introduced to the wonderful Mason Rack Band: when he’s not sounding like Tom Waits growling an old blues-rock standard, Mason Rack is giggling like a mischievous child and telling stories of growing up in a family of entertainers.

 

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PATH trail in autumn in Mason Mill Park, near Decatur Georgia. 11/10/14

City of Leander Parks & Recreation

4/28/2018

 

Mason Homestead

1101 S. Bagdad Rd., Leander, Texas 78641

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Mason Raymond from the Vancouver Canucks

While teaching at Locust Grove, I was lucky enough to catch all of these mason bees hatching and mating! What a cool sight! These bees are only active for a few weeks.

Willy Mason Performs live at St David's Historic Sanctuary in Austin Texas for SXSW Festival

Mason Raymond from the Vancouver Canucks

Mason - 1851 livery stable, the only remaining original structure from Fort Mason at Mason, Texas.

Mason Hunter of "Beacons."

Check him outttttt.

 

www.myspace.com/beaconsmusic

  

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Mason Raymond from the Vancouver Canucks

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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Awards program for Merlyn Meredith receiving his 70 year pin as a member of the Masons.

Mason Boogie Boarding-Painting technique

UP's Mason yard, moving from 12St NW overpass. There is just something of the yard and portions of both cement plants that said this one needed to be posted.

Look at that cute kid! This is my favorite of the bunch.

Mason wasp, Euodynerus sp., from Two Buttes Reservoir State Wildlife Area, Colorado. May 6, 2019.

Mason has developed two little swirls on his butt over the last two months or so. Weird.

mason doing the same. chuggin the cocoa and all...

Operator- Masons of Cheddington

Operating Area- Buckinghamshire

Make- Jonckheere

Model- Mistral

Chassie- Volvo B10M

Fleet No- N/A

Reg- Y227CDS

Location Seen- Hertfordshire Showground for Showbus 50

Service- N/A

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Seen- 25/9/22

Mason Raymond in action during the game between Vancouver Canucks and Phoenix Coyotes on November 8th at GM Place Vancouver. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

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