Bottled Up

Awhile ago, The MadSnapper posted about her bottles. I told her that I had a collection, and that I would post mine. So here they are on the kitchen sink window.

                                                                                       

On the counter underneath sit my succulents. Fake ones, but they look real.

Rather than a single, uniform substance, glass is an unusual state of matter that looks like a solid but acts like a liquid.

Because of the unusual properties of its atoms, glass is in a distinctly unique category of its own, neither fully solid nor fully liquid, referred to as a rigid liquid or an amorphous solid.

“In glass, imperfections become unique patterns of beauty.”

 – Unknown

Sunday Sunset - Flying Into The Heart Of The Sunset

 Just snapped this one a few hours ago!

“Sunsets are loved because they vanish.” – Ray Bradbury

Strawberry

 Tonight was the Full Strawberry Moon. So called because strawberries are ripe this month. I got some decent shots.

·       Each berry has over 200 seeds on its surface.

·       There is a museum in Belgium just for strawberries.

·       Despite their name, strawberries are not true berries. True berries have seeds on the inside, while strawberry seeds are on the outside. Technically, strawberries are aggregate accessory fruits.

·       There are 600 strawberry varities

·       In 2015, a Japanese farmer grew an enormous strawberry weighing 18 oz – about the size of a pineapple

How RUDE!

 I am ending my week of bee posts with something I think you have never seen.

Did you know that bees are being artificially inseminated? They are!

Here are some photos I took of the procedure being shown on T.V.

Here is what I read about the reason for it:

Use of artificial insemination is not currently widespread within the industry, however some apiarists are using it to produce genetically favourable breeder queens or to make specific crosses.

Bees In The House!

 The Big Cow as a bee got nothing on me! I made some bee decorations to put out for the summer. First is my little bee shelf in the kitchen.

I put this sign on the microwave.

I made this decorative gardening/bee hat to hang in the living room.

I found this flowerpot ribbon to put on it.

I saw this cute bee wooden spoon, but did not buy it.

BumBULLbee

 The Big Cow is all ready for summer. He is now a BumBULLbee!

Better watch out! He even has a stinger!

Well, we must be MOOOving along now.

Signature courtesy of The Mad One Herself

Sunday Sunset - Flying Into The Heart Of The Storm

 Up on the hill, we found storm clouds and rain instead of a sunset.

And this plane was flying straight into the storm cloud.

 

"We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain."

Frank Herbert