My friend Patti is a serious bee keeper. She has a bunch of hives. If I were younger, it’d be a hobby for me but I’m just too old to learn all about it. The hives when full weigh 50 pounds. I’d have trouble lifting them. She sent me a photo and asked me to find the queen. I was successful.
Logan and Astrid went to check out a used camper. It was near my favorite restaurant at Leslie, AR. The food they selected looks appetizing.
I rode over to Pop’s Pond and spotted this wild flower. It’s Foxglove Beardtongue. It was blooming all around the Pond. Some are purple but all these were white.
Foxglove, also known as Digitalis, gets this name from the Latin digitus meaning finger. Leonhart Fuchs first invented the name for the plant in his 1542 book, based upon the German vernacular name Fingerhut, which translates literally as 'finger hat'. It actually means thimble to us today. The plant is used in heart medicines. Parts of it are very poisonous.
2 comments:
The queen is the biggest one, right? We have lots of foxglove around here, mostly the purple/pinkish color. I saw some at a local nursery to buy and wondered why anyone would do that since it already grows so abundantly around here.
Bees are interesting. Glad you are finding wildflowers! Looks like Logan and Astrid had a nice lunch with dessert too!
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