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So my big project for the summer is to learn about bees and pollination. I received a scholarship from the Garden Club of America to study bees. Earlier in May and June I took a class with Marla Spivak. an entomologist at the UM.

I learned how to manage a hive, extract honey, and manage diseases.

Even though I got a late start to the season, I got a bee package in the mail a week ago. the bees were mostly dead, and were starting to smell because of decomposing. I hived the package, and gave them some sugar water to discover that the queen was dead too.So I bought a new queen, and we will see how it turns out this Tuesday, when I receive the queen! Till then, lets hope the ladies (since all worker bees are women) can hang in there!

Inspiration

Hello. I'm excited to start sharing my life, musings, and photography through this blog.

I got the name for my blog from James Wright's Poem, " A Blessing".

Just off the Highway to Rochester, Minnesota
Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass.
And the eyes of those two Indian ponies
Darken with kindness.
They have come gladly out of the willows
To welcome my friend and me.
We step over the barbed wire into the pasture
Where they have been grazing all day, alone.
They ripple tensely, they can hardly contain their happiness
That we have come.
They bow shyly as wet swans. They love each other.
There is no loneliness like theirs.
At home once more,
They begin munching the young tufts of spring in the darkness.
I would like to hold the slenderer one in my arms,
For she has walked over to me
And nuzzled my left hand.
She is black and white,
Her mane falls wild on her forehead,
And the light breeze moves me to caress her long ear
That is delicate as the skin over a girl's wrist.
Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom.

I felt that this poem captivates a similar emotion I feel to the natural world. And even as a student who is trying to figure out what I do with my life, I want to always maintain a sense of compassion for others and for the larger world. Interconnectivity!!