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Bees and bee pests

Some wiki research on bees of various kinds, and bee pests.
In case you were wondering…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_honey_bee

The European honey bee or Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a species of honey bee. The genus Apis is …

The Atchalafaya Basin and the Chitimacha

The Atchalafaya Basin is the largest freshwater swamp in America. I’m inclined to think that this area is where Fozzie and Pen live. It’s size makes it easy to get lost in, easy to hide in. Plus, it’s beautiful in …

Mostly Fogarty, aka Drin’s Gutbucket Favorites

Copy of the original lj post text of Timees Before/A Rather Baroque Trio/”Bring on Them Twangy Guitars”, which includes the embedded YouTube music for interested listeners.

Challenge: Cornered
Title: Bring on Them Twangy Gittars
Rating (G through NC-17): FRM, implied …

Fogarty road trip music

This is the lj entry that had the music that Fogarty built.

If any of them has a soundtrack to his life, Drin thinks, it’s got to be me. Not classy and elegant and spare, like the music that Dance …

the meantone blues

Meet Anders Thidell. He created a series of guitars custom-fretted to produce meantone tunings.

The meantone difference can be very subtle. You can hear it best in smaller intervals like major thirds.…

Venus in Postcard Art for a Friend

Goya is one of the classic names you think of for classic Spanish paintings. And it would be hard for Emma to resist sending along a different Goya with this one to choose from. It’s simple. Dress herself in a …