Carriage House Farm Splendor

So, my country mouse family continually sends me emails with pictures of the farm and updates on its progess throughout the year. Which is great. I love it. It sometimes makes me jealous and/or homesick, but I love it.

And now that my brother is hip deep in beekeeping, I get pictures of bees a lot.

Here are the newest pictures which make me terribly jealous right now--because clearly, Cincinnati is in full bloom, while up here in Chicago, we just got an inch of snow. grr.

I'm thinking this first shot is of a crab apple:


the second shot is a tiny fuzzy bee butt busy in this crab apple: