After returning from Catalina, we took our friends to San Juan Capistrano as Mike is a history buff, and the California Missions are the oldest architecture we have out here! For those of you who've said you find historical antidotes interesting, the missions were built by the Spanish at 20 miles distance from one another up the California coast along what is called Camino Real (Ray-Al). That distance was chosen as it was the distance that could be walked within a day. Not all the missions survive to this day, but there are many and of varying sizes.
My! Don't I digress!
So, we're walking the grounds and the town of Capistrano when I look up to photograph the canopy of a tree. I saw what looked like a rag draped on a branch, and then Ken commented, so I turned my camera on it. Have you ever seen a bee swarm make a honeycomb as strangely beautiful as that?! It looks to be filled with honey and I wonder how long it will take before it's dripping on people walking below!
When I share a picture of the mission, I'll just refer back to this picture for the information!
A beautiful sculpture. How lovely to see the bees. Their numbers are decreasing in many places. Without them, no pollination and no plants growing.....
very cool! I've never seen a hive in the willd, and mentioned it to Tim, whose father raised bees at one time. Tim laughed at me and said, "they don't usually travel with carpenter bees to build them those white boxes"
Just amazing! Honestly at first glance, Louise, I thought the white was a large snake’s shed skin. I’m glad it was just a honeycomb. Did the mission sell honey?
Great find and capture . we`ve to take more care for the bee`s.
( once we did have a nest of waps near our spare bedroom window. Could n`t open the window the whole summer. Gladly when they are gone the never return to the same place.)
( once we did have a nest of waps near our spare bedroom window. Could n`t open the window the whole summer. Gladly when they are gone the never return to the same place.)