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Friday Slide Show: Two Crews
18 April 2025
One of our regular urban hikes is to go see the bees. There are a couple dozen hives maintained near the Laguna Honda Reservoir on Seventh Ave. And it's a good hike down the hill (and back up after).
We can't get very close to the hives because the area is padlocked as part of the San Francisco Water District, which knows better than to invite the public to cavort on its property.
Notice there is a brick on the top of most of the hives? It gets windy around here.
Sometimes we can see the bees swarming around their hive. But on this occasion, the bee crews were all out on calls. Not a buzz to be heard.
But we happened to be there when a human crew was working on the recently cleared western bank of the reservoir. We have no idea what they were doing. But they planted little flags to mark each spot.
We took just a shot or two of them with the our Nikon D200 (whose color rendering we like) and the 18-200mm Nikkor we haven't sent in for repair (it jumps when we half press the Shutter button but focuses fine).
We suspect the crew is trying to figure out the hardiest landscaping for the area.
Not that the bees care. They make their way into the neighborhoods and collect what they already know is there.
When we see one in our own yard, we say hello. And tell them their hive needs painting so they hurry home to check.
We've yet to be stung.
