© Robin Edmundson, 'Beehive, smoker',  18 x 22 inches framed.  I use a smoker when working the bees.  It keeps them calmer.   ...

© Robin Edmundson, 'Beehives #2', 18 x 22 inches framed. Once I got started painting the hives, I couldn't stop.  There...

© Robin Edmundson, 'Beehives - Plein Air', 18 x 22 inches framed.   Getting feedback is a powerful thing.   I was showing this...

© Robin Edmundson, 'Beehives #1', watercolor on paper,  10 x 14 inches. As you know I am a beekeeper.   Most beekeepers paint...

When it gets hot, as it has been here lately,  the bees hang out on the sides of the hive.  They like the shadier places - under the tops,...

I put the supers on the hives.   All those colors make me absurdly happy.  I have jars of sugar water tucked in the top boxes.   They won...

I have a stack of medium supers waiting behind my hives to use as tall shims for when the flow abates and I need to feed the bees.   Eric...

Last fall we moved the hives from our west hill to an area not far from the veg garden.   Over the winter, we built a berry patch around t...

When I was battening down the hives last week, I put mite boards under them to check the mite load.   The 24 hour mite count ranged from...

We've battened down the hives for the winter. This is a rare photo of both Eric and me working the hives.   Lily is in charge of th...

After the Big Snow, it got warm here.   Warm!   Last Saturday it was 60 degrees.   Our horizontal hive had a lot of action as it got warme...

All tucked in for the duration.  The center hive really isn't a hive, but a stack of spare supers there to freeze for the season.   Th...

A beehive consists of a set of boxes.   The bees use the bottom boxes to put their brood in.  That's called the brood chamber.  They onl...

Our Tardis hive is a horizontal hive body.    It looks like this. The frames run the same direction as the bricks on top do.   21 frame...

You might remember that we had a bit of trouble with the queen in our Flower Lang hive and we had to replace her .   We checked on things ...

Blow these pics up for great details Confession:    I was really tempted just to give you a couple of nice pics, brag that we found both...

K2 is done painting the new Langstroth hive.   This is all her design. Voila! Here's a close up of the detail: We used good qual...

Langstroths look like stacks of boxes.  It's hard to imagine while you're looking at the outside, just how bees move around in t...