Wildflower Wednesday

This lovely white flower with paper thin petals is called a Boulder Raspberry. They are very prevalent up here.

This unusual looking thing is called a Spotted Coralroot. Its actually a parasite that grows out of fungi, and its an orchid. "Several Native American groups historically used the stems dried and brewed as a tea for such maladies as colds, pneumonia, and skin irritation."(Wikipedia)
I dont find these often on the island, but was lucky enough to find one last week, and snapped this shot.

These are Leafy Cinquefoil, and they are popping up all along our driveway

And last, though not a wildflower...i thought you might like to see one of our new bees from the hive enjoying some of my garden chives.
Happy Wednesday!

More Buzzing at the Black Bear.....

10 days ago, Justin picked up this new swarm of bees, and so far so go. They seem happy in their new home, and we left a few rows of combs from the last batch to help them get established. We received them a little later than we would have liked, but there are still plenty of flowers around here for them, and this swarm is much larger than our last one, so hopefully they will stick around :) Anyways, Jordyn is very excited to have new bees, as are we...so stay tuned for occasional bee updates :)

Whats Buzzing at the Blackbear...

Well, after only a few weeks, this is what the bees have created so far. Its pretty awesome to watch them in action...theres a little window in the side of the hive to watch the activity, and as you can see, they are cruisin right along!

We have had several more bear encounters, the most recent was last night...the damn bear scattered my garbage all over the property! doh! The night before that i forgot to take down my hummingbird feeders and he tore those down (breaking one of them). Ah...life in the mountains! :) I wouldnt trade it for anything though!

This is my 100th post, and i would love to do a give-away, but since im getting ready to run out the door to go camping, i guess ill have to worry about a give-away another time. Besides, i dont know what to give away :) But i dont suppose i will get any complaints if i do one at a later date!

Well, for those of you in the states.....have a Happy 4th of July!!! :)