Author Topic: Pictures from Texas Flood (Read 6813 times)

lazy shooter · « **on:** June 03, 2016, 08:27:51 pm »

County Road to the east of my house:

Spillway from my two acre pond. A four inch rain usually causes a trickle of water down this dry wash.

County Road to the west of my house:

Bee brush blooming on the ranch. It has nothing to do with the flood. Bee love it.

Prickly pear cactus blooming on the ranch. It too, has nothing to do with the flood, but bees do forage on it. It is an awesome bloom.

it appears the end is in sight. We have had somewhere north of 15 inches of rain in the last week. That's about 60 percent of our annual rainfall.

Wandering Man · « **Reply #1 on:** June 03, 2016, 10:11:36 pm »

Wandering Man · « **Reply #2 on:** June 03, 2016, 10:23:58 pm »

lazy shooter · « **Reply #3 on:** June 04, 2016, 08:48:33 am »

Several of the farmers lost irrigation ponds and cattle ponds due to the dams breaking. In some instances, the spillways were not large enough to keep the flood water from going over the dam. Once water runs over the dam, the combination of hydraulic pressure and erosion will usually cut a crevasse in the dam. Our locals have suffered with that.

riverbee · « **Reply #4 on:** June 04, 2016, 06:56:04 pm »

lazy, thanks for the great pictures!

Lburou · « **Reply #5 on:** June 04, 2016, 11:35:01 pm »

We had some sunshine today! How about you lazy?

lazy shooter · « **Reply #6 on:** June 05, 2016, 12:35:36 am »

@Lborou:

It was a beautiful sunny day. I mowed most of my yard. Some of it still has water puddles on it. The grass was so high and thick that it looked a bit like a hay meadow had been mowed. My bees are bearding quite a bit and it's not that hot. Are you seeing that at your place?

lazy

Lburou · « **Reply #7 on:** June 05, 2016, 08:59:59 am »

The high humidity brings them out Lazy, but not too much yet for here. If you think your hive populations are strong enough to protect another super from moths and SHB, that would help them cure the nectar inside the hive right now. I make sure there is a top entrance/ventilation hole, that helps. I use hardware cloth all across the bottom entrance, leaving an inch or two for the bees to access the hive, this allows more air circulation for those periods of high humidity.

The weather forecast shows eight days of sunshine coming! WooHoo! The bees will make some honey now!

Lburou · « **Reply #8 on:** June 05, 2016, 09:05:52 am »

Quote from: Wandering Man on June 03, 2016, 10:23:58 pm

Did OSHA approve that PPE?

lazy shooter · « **Reply #9 on:** June 05, 2016, 09:27:45 am »

Thanks for the reply Lee.

I think I am going to use your suggestion about screen wire. The hive that came from your place has a screen wire entrance and it beards less than the other Weaver hives.

lazy

Wandering Man · « **Reply #10 on:** June 05, 2016, 09:32:09 am »

Quote from: Lburou on June 05, 2016, 09:05:52 am

Quote from: Wandering Man on June 03, 2016, 10:23:58 pm

Did OSHA approve that PPE?

Uh ... No.

But I'm sure it's perfectly safe.

It has the good horsekeeping seal of approval.

iddee · « **Reply #11 on:** June 05, 2016, 07:12:36 pm »

New Jack-in-the-box in Texas.

Perry · « **Reply #12 on:** June 05, 2016, 09:32:30 pm »

Some folks amaze me how they never lose their sense of humour.

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #13 on:** June 06, 2016, 12:41:04 am »

Man you guys down there got hammered. Was thinking about yall when I watched the news.. Hope you get dried out soon!

lazy shooter · « **Reply #14 on:** June 15, 2016, 01:21:24 pm »

These sunflowers are about six weeks ahead of their normal blooming time. They are also about twice as tall as normal. This too, is a result of the floods we had last month. As a sidebar, these are native sunflowers, and I have never seen a honey bee foraging on one of them.

These sunflowers are great forage for the small song birds, dove, turkey and quail. They feed a lot of birds and rodents.

Lburou · « **Reply #15 on:** June 15, 2016, 03:33:01 pm »

Very nice flowers Lazy, glad to see they had a banner year. My small 1/2 acre of flowers got stunted when they were underwater and did not recover, but there were a lot of seeds for next year.

riverbee · « **Reply #16 on:** June 15, 2016, 09:37:44 pm »

great photos lazy!

Bakersdozen · « **Reply #17 on:** June 15, 2016, 09:40:41 pm »

So glad you took your pictures in the sunflowers. It's so beautiful.

lazy shooter · « **Reply #18 on:** June 15, 2016, 09:52:55 pm »

Quote from: Bakersdozen on June 15, 2016, 09:40:41 pm

So glad you took your pictures in the sunflowers. It's so beautiful.

Dang Baker you are easy pleased. I didn't think I looked that good.

lazy

iddee · « **Reply #19 on:** June 15, 2016, 10:08:39 pm »

No, Baker, it's the first pic that is so beautiful. The second one, not so hot.