Category: bees and honey...

being an apprentice beekeeper
observing bees pollinating flowers
imagining a hive surrounded by honey bees, each bee representing a niggling problem -- then each bee (problem) entering the hive one at a time, and noticing how your mind quiets
honey from Mérida, Mexico
taking some lemon and honey in the morning
the 20,000+ different species of bee, the biological difference between bees and wasps being that bees provide their young with a mixture of pollen and honey
bees and the flowers they pollinate evolved simultaneously and their value as pollinators is much greater than their value for honey and wax production
the flavor and color of honey is determined by the flowers from which the nectar is gathered
the honeycomb's double layer of uniform hexagonal cells constructed of beeswax secreted by the worker bees and propolis, a plant resin collected by them
honey granulates between 50-65 degrees F; it is one of the most easily assimilated (consumed and incorporated as nutrients) foods
honey was the only source of sugar available to the ancients and is mentioned in the Bible and Qur'an -- and found in Egyptian tombs