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"... work begun in the dazzling sunshine receives its crown in the darkness."
The Life of the Bee, Maurice Maeterlinck, 1903
A row of wooden beehives seen through a shifting veil of dry summer grasses
Painted alternately blue and white, and dappled by the canopy of leaves above.
A slow blue August sky.
Then closer, inside: from the darkness of the hives the bustling swarm
"There would be around 70,000 bees in a colony," she said.
Complex hexagonal stores are balmy white to deep amber and all shades of yellow in between.
Black, white, yellow, blue: the colours inside an apiary.
Michaela Nettell, 2009