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Bees!

I was quite taken with this little article from the spring of 1958, when what is now called Beer Bike was still “the bike race.” I’m not interested in that at all, however. What caught my attention was Dr. Davies’s (former) bee hives, whose existence I had not previously suspected:

 I knew that we still have a bee hive somewhere so I walked around the edges of campus until I found it. It turned out to be even more charming than I expected:

Bonus: An alert colleague found these guys wandering around the quad this morning, apparently looking for the heron seating section.

 

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