Meet the bees!

I am a budding beekeeper!  I was first introduced to bees and beekeeping back in elementary school.  My mom took my brother and I to the local arboretum where they have hives and I got to see the apiarists and bees at work.  A friend of mine from orchestra also kept bees, and most recently I found out that one of schoolmates' roommates were keeping bees in Seattle.  Because I'm always in need of yet another hobby, I took on this one.

When installing bees...you basically just dump them from the package into the hive.  They're very gentle because they have no home to defend yet.