Bee update and more 6/12/2011

Checked on the hive established at John and Trudi Kretsingers' on Thursday. They are so super mellow, and seemingly without queen.  My mind has been trying to work out what it means...perhaps the old queen absconded with a bunch of bees and they are raising out a new queen. I didn't even wear gloves or my bee suit.

The raised knobby cells look like drone cells or queen cells. I'm hoping queen cells.

Another bee photo...I'm in Taos this weekend for the wedding of Brian Rauscher and Justin Wheeler at El Monte Sagrado.  Here are some happy honey bees on lavender at this fabulous resort.  The weather is beautiful, warm, breezy.  The flowers are blooming.  An excellent setting for this happy event.

And more bee news this week: Jen Johnson, sometime bee partner of mine, moved two of our four hives to the Kretsinger farm for me yesterday.  We started beekeeping together in 2009, but it was difficult to share responsibilities and decision making.  I'm thinking our challenges were similar to how a beehive can only have one queen.  :)

And a tangential health update... Wednesday I had a biopsy of a very small dot on my cervix.  I should have results tomorrow and will give an update here.  I'm feeling good, upbeat, hopeful that the results will be good, and even if they're not as good, I'm upbeat, hopeful about the next course of action based on the results.