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Super heros, flamingo, leopard and other characters compete in a Halloween costume contest for pets, kids and adults at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Harvest Festival on Friday, October 30, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The festival celebrates the end of the 2015-growing season in the People’s Garden, at the USDA Farmers Market. Activities include Halloween costume contest, demonstrations about how-to build a hoop house, talks with experts about food storage and cooking tips, tasting chef Eliza Gonzalez’s Roasted Butternut Squash with Ancho Mole, harvest the type of red leaf lettuce growing onboard the International Space Station, talks about space gardening and this space-farm-to-fork mission, seeing a section of the People’s Garden Apiary, taste and see a variety of growing mushrooms with recipes, nutrition information, tips and tastings thanks to the American Mushroom Institute and the Mushroom Council, learn all about cotton and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program, explore the DC Central Kitchen Truck Farm, a traveling edible exhibit, and more. USDA photo by Richard Tyner.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Biological Science Technician Nathan Rice uses a honey rake to uncap the beeswax that seals honeycomb cells full of honey, during the extraction process at the Bee Research Laboratory at ARS in Beltsville, MD, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. The honeycomb racks were harvested from the colonies of the People's Garden Apiary, atop the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Whitten Building in Washington, DC. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Biological Science Technician Nathan Rice harvesting honey from the two colonies at the People's Garden Apiary on the USDA Headquarters Whitten Building roof, in Washington, D.C on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Home apiary. This National hive is not as full as it looks. The bottom box is the brood box. The two above are honey supers and the ones above them are spun supers being cleaned up by the bees. The spun frames are from the same apiary.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Biological Science Lab Technician Andy Ulsamer positions honeycomb racks onto a rack mount that will spin inside a centrifuge to extract the honey, at the Bee Research Laboratory at ARS in Beltsville, MD, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. The honeycomb racks were harvested from the colonies of the People's Garden Apiary, atop the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Whitten Building in Washington, DC. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator Anne Alonzo, looks at a dinosaur-dog during a Halloween costume contest announced by a local radio station at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Harvest Festival on Friday, October 30, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The festival celebrates the end of the 2015-growing season in the People’s Garden, at the USDA Farmers Market. Activities include Halloween costume contest, demonstrations about how-to build a hoop house, talks with experts about food storage and cooking tips, tasting chef Eliza Gonzalez’s Roasted Butternut Squash with Ancho Mole, harvest the type of red leaf lettuce growing aboard the International Space Station, talks about space gardening and this space-farm-to-fork mission, seeing a section of the People’s Garden Apiary, taste and see a variety of growing mushrooms with recipes, nutrition information, tips and tastings thanks to the American Mushroom Institute and the Mushroom Council, learn all about cotton and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program, explore the DC Central Kitchen Truck Farm, a traveling edible exhibit, and more. USDA photo by Richard Tyner.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service Biological Science Technician Nathan Rice (in full bee protective suit and hat) shows a rack of honeycombs full of honey, to Office of Communications Acting Communication Coordinator Brian k. Mabry looking on from a safe perspective window near the People's Garden Apiary on the USDA Headquarters' Whitten Building roof, in Washington, D.C., during the harvesting of honey from two colonies on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Biological Science Technician Nathan Rice (in full bee protective suit and hat) and assisted by Biological Science Lab Technician Andy Ulsamer harvesting honey from the two colonies at the People's Garden Apiary on the USDA Headquarters Whitten Building roof, in Washington, D.C on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
A queen Italian honey bee (large bee near center) in the U.S. Department of Agriculture People's Garden Apiary, atop the headquarters' Whtten Building in Washington, D.C., on Wednsday, May 22, 2013. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Executive Master Gardeners volunteer their time and efforts to spruce up the People's Garden for the Harvest Festival on Friday, October 30, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The festival celebrates the end of the 2015-growing season in the People’s Garden, at the USDA Farmers Market. Activities include Halloween costume contest, demonstrations about how-to build a hoop house, talks with experts about food storage and cooking tips, tasting chef Eliza Gonzalez’s Roasted Butternut Squash with Ancho Mole, harvest the type of red leaf lettuce growing onboard the International Space Station, talks about space gardening and this space-farm-to-fork mission, seeing a section of the People’s Garden Apiary, taste and see a variety of growing mushrooms with recipes, nutrition information, tips and tastings thanks to the American Mushroom Institute and the Mushroom Council, learn all about cotton and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program, explore the DC Central Kitchen Truck Farm, a traveling edible exhibit, and more. USDA photo by Richard Tyner.
Pine needles produce a smoke to calm the bees for beekeepers at People's Garden Apiary on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Headquarters' Whitten Building roof, in Washington, D.C., during the harvesting of honey from two colonies on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Too busy this week for a proper post and description of a model shoot.
Instead, here are a bunch of bees from my father-in-law's apiary.
Hive 19 was totally jumping. They had jello shots and a DJ.
Pine needles go into a smoker to produce a smoke to calm the bees for beekeepers at People's Garden Apiary on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Headquarters' Whitten Building roof, in Washington, D.C., during the harvesting of honey from two colonies on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
A bunch of us in in Killinchy Beekeepers did a First Aid course.
We got a defibrillator via the National Lottery Community Fund. So the first aid course was part of the process/preparations.
We did the course a few weeks ago but were getting our certificates yeaterday and I brought the camera to get some pictures for the Associations social media and for the grant awarder.
I managed to get in this one!
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator Anne Alonzo, second from right, looks over the Halloween costume contest, pet participants at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Harvest Festival on Friday, October 30, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The festival celebrates the end of the 2015-growing season in the People’s Garden, at the USDA Farmers Market. Activities include Halloween costume contest, demonstrations about how-to build a hoop house, talks with experts about food storage and cooking tips, tasting chef Eliza Gonzalez’s Roasted Butternut Squash with Ancho Mole, harvest the type of red leaf lettuce growing onboard the International Space Station, talks about space gardening and this space-farm-to-fork mission, seeing a section of the People’s Garden Apiary, taste and see a variety of growing mushrooms with recipes, nutrition information, tips and tastings thanks to the American Mushroom Institute and the Mushroom Council, learn all about cotton and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program, explore the DC Central Kitchen Truck Farm, a traveling edible exhibit, and more. USDA photo by Richard Tyner.
"What's growing this time of year?" sign lists the crops in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People's Garden, on Friday, October 30, 2015, in Washington, D.C. A Harvest Festival is being held to celebrate the end of the 2015-growing season in the People’s Garden, at the USDA Farmers Market. Activities include how-to build a hoop house, talks with experts about food storage and cooking tips, tasting chef Eliza Gonzalez’s Roasted Butternut Squash with Ancho Mole, harvest the type of red leaf lettuce growing onboard the International Space Station, talks about space gardening and this space-farm-to-fork mission, seeing a section of the People’s Garden Apiary, taste and see a variety of growing mushrooms with recipes, nutrition information, tips and tastings thanks to the American Mushroom Institute and the Mushroom Council, learn all about cotton and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program, explore the DC Central Kitchen Truck Farm, a traveling edible exhibit, and more. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
Occasionally I'll take a nighttime walk around the apiary to see what's going on out there. Everything looks good. It's a warm summer night in Florida and the bees are bearding. This is normal. Bees typically beard when it's hot and crowded inside the hive. These colonies have plenty of ventilation and a recent inspection revealed there is ample room inside for expansion. The hives are sitting on screen bottom boards and have an upper entrance which also serves as a vent.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Biological Science Lab Technician Andy Ulsamer helps pour raw honey into a framework and a modified can and lid that holds the elastic screen filter that retains the beeswax in the honey, at the Bee Research Laboratory at ARS in Beltsville, MD, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. The honeycomb racks were harvested from the colonies of the People's Garden Apiary, atop the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Whitten Building in Washington, DC. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
A dumpling vendors, prepares the menu at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Harvest Festival on Friday, October 30, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The festival celebrates the end of the 2015-growing season in the People’s Garden, at the USDA Farmers Market. Activities include Halloween costume contest, demonstrations about how-to build a hoop house, talks with experts about food storage and cooking tips, tasting chef Eliza Gonzalez’s Roasted Butternut Squash with Ancho Mole, harvest the type of red leaf lettuce growing onboard the International Space Station, talks about space gardening and this space-farm-to-fork mission, seeing a section of the People’s Garden Apiary, taste and see a variety of growing mushrooms with recipes, nutrition information, tips and tastings thanks to the American Mushroom Institute and the Mushroom Council, learn all about cotton and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program, explore the DC Central Kitchen Truck Farm, a traveling edible exhibit, and more. USDA photo by Richard Tyner.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Biological Science Technician Nathan Rice begins the honey extraction process by removing one of 16 racks of honeycombs full of honey, from a colony frame box at the Bee Research Laboratory at ARS in Beltsville, MD, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. The honeycomb racks were harvested from the colonies of the People's Garden Apiary, atop the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Whitten Building in Washington, DC. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Raw honey flows from a centrifuge that extracts honey from honeycomb racks, at the Agriculture Research Service (ARS) Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, MD, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. The honeycomb racks were harvested from the colonies of the People's Garden Apiary, atop the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Whitten Building in Washington, DC. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Chef Eliza Gonzalez’s Roasted Butternut Squash with Ancho Mole allowed visitors, to learn about a healthy soup for the fall season at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Harvest Festival on Friday, October 30, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The festival celebrates the end of the 2015-growing season in the People’s Garden, at the USDA Farmers Market. Activities include how-to build a hoop house, talks with experts about food storage and cooking tips, harvesting the type of red leaf lettuce growing onboard the International Space Station, talks about space gardening and this space-farm-to-fork mission, seeing a section of the People’s Garden Apiary, taste and see a variety of growing mushrooms with recipes, nutrition information, tips and tastings thanks to the American Mushroom Institute and the Mushroom Council, learn all about cotton and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program, explore the DC Central Kitchen Truck Farm, a traveling edible exhibit, and more. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
"Ich bin ein Bee-liner"
Really this little apartment complex apiary is in the middle of Berlin. Great eh? I love it.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Harvest Festival on Friday, October 30, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The festival celebrates the end of the 2015-growing season in the People’s Garden, at the USDA Farmers Market. Activities include how-to build a hoop house, talks with experts about food storage and cooking tips, tasting chef Eliza Gonzalez’s Roasted Butternut Squash with Ancho Mole, harvest the type of red leaf lettuce growing onboard the International Space Station, talks about space gardening and this space-farm-to-fork mission, seeing a section of the People’s Garden Apiary, taste and see a variety of growing mushrooms with recipes, nutrition information, tips and tastings thanks to the American Mushroom Institute and the Mushroom Council, learn all about cotton and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program, explore the DC Central Kitchen Truck Farm, a traveling edible exhibit, and more. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
Chef Eliza Gonzalez’s Roasted Butternut Squash with Ancho Mole allowed visitors, to learn about a healthy soup for the fall season at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Harvest Festival on Friday, October 30, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The festival celebrates the end of the 2015-growing season in the People’s Garden, at the USDA Farmers Market. Activities include how-to build a hoop house, talks with experts about food storage and cooking tips, harvesting the type of red leaf lettuce growing onboard the International Space Station, talks about space gardening and this space-farm-to-fork mission, seeing a section of the People’s Garden Apiary, taste and see a variety of growing mushrooms with recipes, nutrition information, tips and tastings thanks to the American Mushroom Institute and the Mushroom Council, learn all about cotton and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program, explore the DC Central Kitchen Truck Farm, a traveling edible exhibit, and more. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
MOVING IN -- Honey bees gather at the opening of their new hive. The hives belong to youngsters, aged 10-14, who were part of a Beekeeping for Beeginners class, the first youth beekeeping class offered by the Cooperative Extension Service. (U of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture photo by Mary Hightower)
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Harvest Festival on Friday, October 30, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The festival celebrates the end of the 2015-growing season in the People’s Garden, at the USDA Farmers Market. Activities include how-to build a hoop house, talks with experts about food storage and cooking tips, tasting chef Eliza Gonzalez’s Roasted Butternut Squash with Ancho Mole, harvest the type of red leaf lettuce growing onboard the International Space Station, talks about space gardening and this space-farm-to-fork mission, seeing a section of the People’s Garden Apiary, taste and see a variety of growing mushrooms with recipes, nutrition information, tips and tastings thanks to the American Mushroom Institute and the Mushroom Council, learn all about cotton and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program, explore the DC Central Kitchen Truck Farm, a traveling edible exhibit, and more. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
Citadel Park Passeig de Picasso Barcelone Catalonia Spain
Citadel Park is a park on the northeastern edge of Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Catalonia. For decades following its creation in the mid-19th century, this park was the city's only green space. The 70 acres (280,000 m2) grounds include the city zoo (once home to the albino gorilla Snowflake, who died in 2004), the Parliament of Catalonia, a small lake, museums, and a large fountain designed by Josep Fontserè (with possible contributions by the young Antoni Gaudí).
Locations
Citadel
In 1714, during the War of the Spanish Succession, Barcelona was laid siege for 13 months by the army of Philip V of Spain. The city fell, and in order to maintain control over it, and to prevent the Catalans from rebelling as they had in the previous century, Philip V built the citadel of Barcelona, at that time the largest fortress in Europe.
A substantial part of the district it was constructed in (La Ribera) was destroyed to obtain the necessary space, leaving its inhabitants homeless. The fortress was characterized by having five corners, which gave the citadel defensive power, and by a rather wide surrounding margin, serving as location for the army's cannons. It included enough buildings to house 8,000 people.
Hundreds of Catalonians were forced to work on the construction for three years, while the rest of the city provided financial backing for this and for warfare-related expenses as well, with a new tax named el cadestre. Three decades later a quarter was rebuilt around the fortress named Barceloneta, which is located inside the neighborhood Ciutat Vella.
In 1841 the city's authorities decided to destroy the fortress, which was hated by Barcelona's citizens. Yet two years later, in 1843, under the regime of Maria Cristina, the citadel was restored. In 1848, after Maria Cristina's abdication and as the citadel lost its use, General Espartero razed most of the buildings within the fortress as well as its walls by bombarding it from the nearby mountain fortress Montjuic, which helped him gain political popularity. By 1869, as the political climate liberalised enough to permit it, General Prim decided to turn over what was left of the fortress to the city and some buildings were demolished under Catalan orders, for it was viewed as by the citizens as a much-hated symbol of central Spanish government.
The chapel (now the Military Parish Church of Barcelona), the Governor's palace (now Verdaguer Secondary School), and the arsenal (now home to the Catalan Parliament) remain, with the rest of the site being turned into the contemporary park by the architect Josep Fontsére in 1872. Nineteen years later, in 1888, Barcelona held the Exposición Universal de Barcelona extravaganza, inspired by Mayor Rius i Taulet, and the park was redesigned with the addition of sculptures and other complementary works of art. This marked the conclusion of the old provincial and unprogressive Barcelona and the establishment of a modern cosmopolitan city. From that point until 1892, half of the park's layout was enhanced again in order to obtain sufficient space for the zoo. The park's bandstand, Glorieta de la Transsexual Sònia, is dedicated to a transsexual, Sonia Rescalvo Zafra, who was murdered there on 6 October 1991 by right-wing extremists.
Cascada
The lake in the Parc de la Ciutadella
The Cascada (waterfall or cascade in Spanish) is located at the northern corner of the park opposite to the lake. It was first inaugurated in 1881 without sculptures or any meticulous details, and was thereby criticized by the press, after which this triumphal arch was thoroughly amended by the addition of a fountain and some minor attributes, which required six years of construction from 1882 to 1888, and was thenceforth put on display at the Universal Exhibition, and hitherto not been redesigned. It was erected by Josep Fontsére and to a small extent by Antoni Gaudí, who at that time was still an unknown student of architecture. Fontsére aimed to loosely make it bear resemblance to the Trevi Fountain of Rome. Two enormous pincers of gigantic crabs serve as stairs to access a small podium located in the centre of the monument. In front of it a sculpture (designed by Venanci Vallmitjana) of Venus standing on an open clam was placed. The whole cascade is divided in two levels. From the podium on a path leads to the Feminine Sculpture and to the northeastern corner of the park, and upon following the route down the stairs the fountain's pond is rounded and the southern tip of the artifact is reached.
Zoo
The zoo's main entrance
The zoo of Barcelona is located in the park of the ciutadella due to the availability of a few buildings which were left empty after the Universal Exposition of 1888. It was inaugurated in 1892, during the day of the Mercé, the patron saint of the city. The first animals were donated by Lluís Martí i Codolar to the municipality of Barcelona, which gratefully approved of their accommodation in the zoo.
Nowadays, with one of the most substantial collections of animals in Europe, the zoo affirms that their aim is to conserve, investigate, and educate.
From 1966 to 2003 the zoo was home to the famous albino gorilla Snowflake, who attracted many international tourists and locals.
Apart from the usual visits, different types of guided tours or other activities are offered, like for example 20 types of diversionary workshops, excursions and fieldtrips for schoolchildren, or personnel training and educational courses in zoology for adults. More than 50,000 children visit the zoo on an annual basis, which is the reason for the zoo's emphasis on education.
Museum of Natural Science
The facade of the zoology museum of Barcelona
Ceramics on the facade of the zoology museum of Barcelona
The Museum of Natural Science, sited in the park, comprises a museum of zoology and a museum of geology.
The museum of zoology was constructed for the Exposición Universal de Barcelona (1888) by the architect Lluís Doménech i Montaner to serve as an exhibition. Most of the building is constructed of red brick. The most popular displays are the skeleton of a whale and exhibits dedicated for smaller children. The institute's stated aims are to enhance knowledge and conservation of the natural diversity of Catalonia and its surroundings, to promote public education on the natural world, to transmit ethical values of respect for nature, and to stimulate informed debate on the issues and environmental problems that concern society. The museum has permanent exhibitions on the subject of mineralogy, petrology and paleontology; the volcanic region of Olot; minerals' secret colors; the animal kingdom; urban birds; and an apiary.
The museum of geology is a legacy of the scientist Francisco Martorell i Peña (1822–1878), who donated his whole collection of artifacts of cultural and archeological importance, his scientific library, and an amount of 125,000 pesetas to the city for the purpose of creating a new museum. The building, built during the same year and named the Corporación Municipal, was designed by Antoni Rivas i Trias.
Edmunds School first graders visit Kristin Wolfe and the Champlain Apiary. June 8, 2017. Photo by Stephen Mease
Engagement photo session at lavender field. Weir's Lane Lavender & Apiary. By photo42: www.photo42.ca/lavender-field-engagement-rovita-collin/