We passed through Bakers Swamp without noticing anything. Then reached our last dot on the map for this trip - Larras Lee and saw this. The roadside monument says: In Memory of WILLIAM LEE (1794 - 1870) of "Larras Lake" a pioneer of the sheep and cattle industry and first member for Roxburgh under responsible government (1856 - 1859). This stone was erected by his descendants. --- 1938 --- This is a repost from a few days ago. Thinking I would use this for this week’s Taphophile Tragics post I dug a little further into William Lee’s story, it’s a very colonial Australian one. William was born of convict parents, living his childhood years around the Sydney region. In his early 20s he was issued with some government cattle, recommended as a suitable settler and granted 134 acres at Kelso near Bathurst. He was one of the first in the area and did well. A few years later he was granted a ram and an inc...
So colourful! How cool!
ReplyDeleteSo you like to paint hives in bright colors in Australia?
ReplyDeleteWe're losing all our bees here, I hope that's not happening in your corner.
By the way, the Z Bee link isn't working for me.
ReplyDeleteJM, Not all of the hives are colourful like this, many are just white.
ReplyDeletePaula, I had heard of the loss of bees in the USA. As far as I know it isn't happening here. The Z link works for me but when I use my Apple Mac it's slow to load.
I was going to comment that the Ozzie versions had a more adventurous colour scheme. Then I read that most of them are white!
ReplyDeleteHm, yes, there is not much difference to the European bee hives.
ReplyDeleteLately I have seen some factory made molded plastic hives - since they looked to me like portable toilets I didn't take a picture.
I got the link to work today. It looks like something we have in our yard, it's called a mason bee house but the last couple of years it's been mostly vacant.
ReplyDeleteWow ... beehives that look like portable toilets and mason bee houses! This has turned out even more interesting than the vineyard differences.
ReplyDeletePerhaps I should add that these were portable bee hives, ;-) -- I am living in an area that is big in fruit growing (besides wine and asparagus) and the farmers rent the bees and they are travelling in their hives from orchard to orchard - but why this beehives have to be the same colour as the toilets, I don't know. Perhaps they are a by-product ... ;-)
ReplyDeleteI was just telling my husband about the interesting bee comments and he told me we are exporting bees to America to help out with the bee problems over there. I found this newspaper article exporting bees to america about it. That's quite a journey for a portable bee hive.
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