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Third time lucky I hope.
With the failure of two swarms sticking around and Spring over, I've gone the not so natural path this time. A Package of Bees.
This is one of the methods most, if not all, Commercial Apiarist use to manipulate/populate a hive. You buy a Queen Bee in a cage and introduce her to a mass of bees.
How it works is the Queen is plugged into the cage with fondant and the mass of bees eat there way to her. You could say they eat her out ;) This takes around 3-5 days and during this period the mass of bees get to know her and once she is free it's all one big happy family. But like most things in life, there are no guarantees.
Usually packages are much more fancy than this but since I couldn't seem to get you classic type, I thought up this idea and approached a local(ish) Commercial Apiarist to see if he'd play along. Around this time of year Commercial Apiarist are buying queens to 're queen' their hives, so I got this guy to get me one too. Then I met up with him, shook a few frames of bees from one of his hives into this cardboard box, that I'd attached the caged queen to, closed it up and headed home. This gave the random coming together of the foreign queen and the bees time to get to know each other before releasing them into my hive.
This is the box on the roof really to remove the queen from the side, which is the 1st step.
More reading on Bee Packages here; www.plantertomato.com/2011/04/how-to-install-bees-in-a-be...
I swear this stuff is TOO addicting. I know, i sit inside that place for 4-5 hours at a time...... (FREE WIFI) ^_^
Construction is steadily moving forward on the 18,000 sq. ft. Possum Creek Skatepark in Gainesville, Florida.
Led by Spohn Ranch's COO, Mark Bradford, the crews in Gainesville are quickly turning what were once just some dreams scribbled on paper into one of Florida's premiere concrete skateparks.
Through a combination of advanced pre-cast concrete technology and methodical on-site concrete pours, the skatepark is nearing a flawless finish with less than 30 days on site.
Here is a panoramic view of the pre-cast concrete pieces that have been set.
Funeral hatchment on the wall of the ringing chamber - Thomas Lane of Coffleet, (Cofflett (Cofflete),who married Penelope only daughter and heir of the Rev. Thomas Tothill, of Bagtor Devon & died 26 Sep, buried 4 Oct 1817, aged 75; she died 27 Mar 1803 aged 56.
Per pale azure and gules three saltires couped argent (Lane) In pretence: Argent on a bend cotised sable a lion passant argent (Tothill)
Crest: From a crescent argent two griffins’ heads addorsed azure and gules
Motto: Celeriter (Quickly)
*Thomas Lane & wife Penelope have a memorial here also www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/mPwB58Qo95
- Church of St Mary, Brixton Devon
Info by kind permission ; www.theheraldrysociety.com
Pulled her out for the day, water blasted and scrubbed down, new anti fouling and raised waterline to prevent growth on nice white bit.
a tall lanky man
in a hat
raven-black
cocked to the right
always the right
the top hat unfolds
made of paper, blood and air
Jeremiah Quick
the hat tips
circus director extraordinaire
painted canvas
brushes the sawdust in the wind
sounds of merriment can be heard within
they come
mortals and ghosts all
snared in the
three rings thrall
blessed by the First Ladies and Gentlemen
the ones who ruled in woodland halls
before men built their terrible walls
that he might
summon all manner
of wild beauties, tame beasts
fauna and flora
for this
the show of shows
and its lord
the dead leave with something akin to a soul
while the living lose their minds fragile hold
for who could
except the dead
dare to the spectacle
of the circus
where a succubus
in a black paper top hat
cocked to the right
always the right
thrills and delights
for just one night
quick sketch, experimenting w/chalk which is new medium for me. Briefly accepting models various projects send email for details
A DIY quick strap sysem I made. Too cheap to buy the Honl Speed Strap.
How-To at www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Quick-System-for-DIY-photo-l...
EDMO heads for Wisdom Way after bringing in MOPO earlier that morning and servicing the power quickly at East Deerfield.
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 1m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM).
Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v...
For full raster dataset go to: environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey
"quick look", more work later, like darks, flats, bias, dark-flat
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Not bad for Los Angeles, for dark sky shot, see www.flickr.com/photos/edhiker/6277898007/
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M42 300 s 6in f3.8 CLS in far end _001.fit 12/28/11
Rougham Airfield (originally known as RAF Bury St Edmunds), is a former RAF station, situated 3 miles east of the Suffolk market town of Bury St Edmunds. The airfield was built between 1941 and 1942, and had three intersecting concrete runways. The main runway was approximately 2000 yards long, and run in an East to West direction.
It was designed for a United States Army Airforce unit (USAAF) bomb group. Fifty concrete hardstands were constructed justoff the encircling perimeter track. Two T2-type hangars were erected, one on each side of the airfield. Accommodation was provided for some 3,000 personnel in Nissen and other temporary type buildings.
The airfield was opened in September 1942 and was used by the USAAF Eighth Air Force.Bury St Edmunds was given USAAF designation Station 468 (BU).
The first USAAF group to use Bury St. Edmunds airfield was the 47th Bombardment Group (Light) arriving from Greensboro AAF North Carolina in mid-September 1942. The 47th was equipped with the Douglas A-20 Havoc bomber, but the group quickly moved to RAF Horham, as Bury St. Edmunds was still under construction. On 2 November the 47th was ordered to North Africa, departing for Medina Air Field 15 miles south of Casablanca in Morocco.
The 322d Bombardment Group (Medium) arrived in December 1942 from Drane Army Airfield, Florida, a satellite installation of nearby MacDill Field, where the 322d originally began their pre-deployment training. The group was assigned to the 3rd Bomb Wing and flew Martin B - Z6B/C Marauders.
Ongoing construction at Bury St. Edmunds forced two of the group's squadrons to locate to RAF Rattlesden. The group's aircraft did not arrive until late in March 1943. Once operational, the 322d flew two low-level bombing operations from Bury St. Edmunds. The first, on the 14th of May when it dispatched 12 planes for a minimum-level attack on an electrical generating plant near Ijtnuiden. This was the first operational combat mission flown by B-26s. The second was a disastrous mission to the Netherlands on Monday, 17 May, when the group sent 11 aircraft on a similar operation from which none of the aircraft penetrating the enemy coast, returned. 60 crewmen were lost to flak and interceptors. Group morale was not improved when, on the 29th of May, a B-26 crashed onto the airfield killing the crew and damaging a hangar. After these missions, the group was re-equipped and trained for medium-altitude operations for several weeks before returning to combat operations.
On the 13th of June, the 322nd moved to RAF Andrews Field in Essex. The 94th Bombarment Group (Heavy) arrived from RAF Earls Colne on the 15th of June 1943. The 94th was assigned to the 4th Combat Bombardment Wing, and the group tail code was a 'Square-A'. The group flew the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign and served chiefly as a strategic bombardment organization throughout the war.
The 94th flew its first mission on the 13th of June 1943, bombing an airfield at Saint Omer. After that, the group attacked such strategic objectives as the port of St Nazaire, shipyards at Kiel, an aircraft component parts factory at Kassel, a synthetic rubber plant at Hanover, a chemical factory at ludwigshafen, marshalling yards at Frankfurt, loil facilities at Mersburg, and ball-bearing works at Eberhausen.
The 94th took part in the campaign of heavy bombers against the enemy aircraft industry during Big Week, between the 20th and the 25th of February, 1944.
Prior to D-Day on June 1944, they helped to neutralize V-Weapon sites, airfields, and other military installations along the cob Industrial Estate. The T2 hangars are still in use, for storage.
The control tower was used for many years as a private dwelling, and has now been restored and is used as a museum. The airfield, once again known as Rougham, now has two grass runways available for civil use. Gliding and model aircraft flying are frequent and several open-air events are organised each year.