Michael Palmer  wrote:

>Boy, lots of apiaries in the shade, eh? They must have been fun to inspect?

Hi Mike

Well, it might just be the shady ones make more dramatic photos ...

No, actually I was surprised, too, at how often Upstate bee yards are in the
dense shade of the dark woods. 

I was headed into one with this old timer and I was *just about* to ask him
"why do you always stick the hives in these shady spots under the low lying
branches? when he said to me:

"You know, when I first set this yard up, this was a pasture."

But you're right, it's hard to inspect bees in the shade, and they tend to
be more ornery. But then, there are a lot of beekeepers that don't really
open the hives very often ...

pb

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