Jane Packard sent us a note from Texas:
On the way home from visiting family for the holidays, we stopped off to visit Flyman, outside Terrell, Texas. His tagline on the bee blog is “all men are equal before fish”.
After a picante lunch at the Gira del Sol,in a renovated Dairy Queen, he sent us on our way with a bagful of goodies from his bees. He had bragged on the delicate clear honey from the mesquite bloom this year. Yet we were not prepared for the sheer golden transparency when the wrapping fell away from two bottles of mead.
Having been warned that the only sin worse than an unopened bottle of mead was unempty open bottle, we decided to test the legend that mead was what motivated the Vikings to pilage England. The warm glow you see in this photo is not only from the beeswax candle behind it. Click for another post on Texan Bees
