bookstore: Green Leaf

[eub]

During lunch, stopped in to Green Leaf Books, on Stone. It is a pleasing bookstore. Used and new. I resisted Keep Chickens!, but ended up with The Orchard Mason Bee instead, and find that I can house them in a four-by-six drilled with 5/16" holes -- can just hang it out there and with luck they'll find it -- but in April or May. Be aware also that "one species [of bee] nests only in the spiraled labyrinth of the abandoned shell of a particular species of snail." Green Leaf has plants, gardening, natural history; food, cooking; a section of children's books; also a smattering of other books, mixed together, and seeming to include more interesting ones than is likely. Bright and airy. Ordinarily I don't approve of such non-shelf use of wall space and cubic yardage, but I'm won over.

Comments

[hattifattener]

Coolness. Chloë has a mason bee block --- bought, not home-made --- and I think it even has some bees in it. I wonder if jinian's skep has borne bumbly bee-fruit yet.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

What do mason bees do? Besides go in your shingles, I mean?

[eub.livejournal.com]

Pollinate pollinate pollinate pollinate pollinate. Lots.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

What lovely and devoted insects!

[eub.livejournal.com]

"Oh, drat, my brush-like pollen-gathering body parts are leaking hard-gathered pollen all over the place; I wish I had neat highly-evolved thigh-sacks like Ms. Honeybee has."

[jinian.livejournal.com]

I don't expect any bumblebees yet. They'd probably all found places by the time I made the skep. Next year!