Old Single Chamber Bee Box with Cigar Box Wood Slider antique landscape painting its body is painted a

its body is painted a deep teal green animated with thousands of tiny dots in yellow

but certainly it feels quite intimate

At least this is what I think is going on here

with even the smoke of the chimneys blowing like trails behind them

" and then underneath that: "no it ain't"

Old Single Chamber Bee Box with Cigar Box Wood Slider antique landscape painting its body is painted aI've come to keep an eye out for old bee boxes, especially for the fact that they tend to vary widely, each one representing its individual maker's solution to the problem of capturing, releasing, and transporting bees. This one is pretty straight forward as far as they go, with just a single chamber, perhaps just for carrying a queen(?) fronted with a pane of glass and backed with a sliding door, which looks to have been cut from a cigar box, as