For some reason I have been pondering about bee hives lately.  There is a colony of bees living in the septic tank under my casita on Vieques – not the sort of thing you’re going to collect honey from…  I have been wondering if there are any viable and visually pleasing alternatives to those ubiquitous (and boring) white rectangles which people who keep bees tend to favor.  I recently learned the word for the old-style dome shaped beehives (the ones that the hair-do is named after) – Skep.

Yesterday Elsbeth took me to a great little bookstore in downtown Delaware, Ohio and apart from having some of the most amazing street art I’ve seen in a long time, it’s called the Beehive – and the mosaic features a skep.  Sweet!

Also sweet was Whit’s frozen custard shoppe next door, but I shall not post photos of my gluttony. 😉