Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Archive for the tag 'Bee'
Filed under Holidays, Malham 2011
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
16 Comments CherryPie on Sep 25th 2011
Filed under Heritage, Science & Nature
100 Photos 81 :: Bees
The practice of keeping bees in hives dates back at least as far as the ancient Egyptians. The summer edition of the National Trust magazine has an interesting article entitled ‘The Beekeeper’ in which Emma Hill the head gardener for Dunham Massey treats the reader to some interesting facts about bees:
A bee society is predominantly [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on May 30th 2011
Filed under Science & Nature
AV – Maybe Nature Knows Best…
The polling stations are now closed and the die has been cast on whether the public have chosen to try an Alternative Voting (AV) system. When I arrived at my local polling station they estimated that around two thirds of the ward had either turned out to vote or cast a postal vote which was [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on May 5th 2011
Filed under Art, Gardens, Out & About
Cherie’s Place -Thought for the Week
Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?
Richard Bach
10 Comments CherryPie on Dec 26th 2010
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau
22 Comments CherryPie on Aug 29th 2010
Filed under Gardens, Out & About
Spring Colours
These pictures were taken in Hodnet Hall Gardens last May and remind me that the gardens are coming into bloom and I will soon be able to get out and enjoy them again.
Although there aren’t many flowers out yet I have seen rather a lot of bumble bees, especially in my garden. There have [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Apr 26th 2010
Filed under This & That
PhotoHunt – Average
A bee and a flower of average size.
Trying to find a photo that might fit this theme left me pondering on the meaning of average; size, height, intelligence, beauty etc etc.
It left me with the thought that average is often used in the context that anything above is exceptional and anything below is sub standard. [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 5th 2010
