Where have we been?
Ahh.. Springtime in southwest Virginia. The garden. The bees. Cripple Creek Day.
We’ve planted most of our garden — the peas are coming along, the greens are bountiful, and everything else is growing. The wild and tamed June berries (aka service berry, aka sarvis) are ripe and on the menu.
The bees are making honey. We’ll harvest our first super of honey this week. Our Langstroth hive was starting some queen cups last week, but we gave them some room and the potential swarm cells weren’t there this week (the queen had not yet laid eggs in them). And we had a successful beekeeping workday in Wytheville with the Mountain Empire Beekeepers Association, with 89 people attending and getting into the bees.
What if I held a workshop and nobody came?
And Cripple Creek Day was a rockin’ good time. Fun parade, lots of good music (both bluegrass bands played their versions of Goin’ Up Cripple Creek), and cooling down in Francis Mill Creek (which flows into Cripple Creek here in town). All the children, and some of the adults, enjoyed looking for crawdads and salamanders.
cool place on a hot day
I love the caption on the first picture….The second reminds me of summers at Grandpa and Grandma Randolph’s. I spent many hours down at the creek looking for crawdads!