Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Debbie Mcdonald <belynor@sbcglobal.net>]

Yesterday a honey bee came right up to me at face level and spoke to me. I 
wish Pam Montgomery had been here:). It is my most desparing thing that I 
long to understand and I seem so inept. I feel it was glad I was back but in 
an urgent way. I did not know what bees do with the freezing temps we have 
had here for many many days in a row, last week. This week it is almost 70, 
raining now from the flow of the California system. 
  I found a honey bee tree in a fallen tree here the first few months I was 
walking the land. It was near sundown and the sun shown through the trees in 
a shockingly golden glow it was so phenomenal, and I saw in my peripheral 
vision in this glow a circular stirring. I then said OH it is honey bees. I 
was later to be made distraught that my bee tree was almost a dead colony. 
Something had blackened the hive. I thought they were gone but upon close 
inspection, some individuals came out. I do not know what caused this 
tragedy.