More pictures

Okay, okay, so I'm utterly besotted with my husband, and so I put the picture of the Potomac with him in it up in the last post, even though it was actually a rather uncomplimentary shot of the landscape. In atonement, I offer this one. Actually, I was so hot and dehydrated by then that all of the pictures I took of the gardens kinda stink, but this one is better than the other, at least. There will be, I assure you, more and better in the future. Besides, everything's rather parched up here anyway, so it's not as lush as it really ought to be, and no one's to blame. Oh, I hope it rains...

I also felt a little silly for not having put any good pictures of the bees up, so here you go. This shot ought to give you some idea of how terribly aggressive honey bees are--these are our mentor Brenda's hands, and she's grabbing worker bees bare-handed to put in the cage with the defunct queen. (Queens cannot take care of themselves, and need to be tended by workers.) I don't believe she was stung while doing this. I wish I could give you a properly high-resolution image so that you could really see the bees. They're really the sweetest little things.