Woodpile Snack

Medium: Acrylic
Image Size: 6" x 9"
Limited Edition Giclée prints available

Some years ago, we had a summer cottage on a secluded lake.  Of course, there were chipmunks around.  What's a summer cottage without chipmunks?  I had decided I wanted to do a painting of our little resident, so I took several photos of him, but I wanted to paint the logs from life.  They were piled underneath the cabin very neatly to keep them dry.  I set up my easel and for several days painted quite happily.

One morning, I washed my hair and went outside to begin painting, so that my hair could dry in the sun.  Unbeknownst to me, there was a bumblebee nest under the cabin with the logs.  I no sooner sat down than I started to see rather more bumblebees than normal, and soon they began to land on me.  I guess they thought my shampoo smelled like flowers.  At any rate, discretion being the better part of valour, I managed to escape with only a couple of stings.  This is how I discovered that bumblebees have hives just like honeybees.
Who knew?