Jewel Box and other brightnesses

The bees are sandwiched between a package of fondant and a pollen patty, which should keep them through the rains. They are well. I have renewed my apiary registration, gathered nettles, whistled at blackbirds, greeted muskrat and beaver. All around me is an unfolding and softening of winter’s stiff and brittle ways.

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