A great dumping of snow in central New Brunswick through December almost buried the bee hives. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as snow helps to insulate the hives in extremely low temperatures such as most of Canada has been experiencing so far this winter.
The first week of January 2008, however, has brought the traditional January thaw — right on schedule — but with warmer temperatures than we would normally expect to see.
The shrinking snow lies under a layer of fog and all the roads and driveways are bare. Once again, the hives begin to emerge from the snow cover, and today — at least here in Keswick Ridge — there were a number of honeybees out on cleansing flights.
Beautiful pictures :)