Today's weathervanes were photographed in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts by my distant cousin Sue Gosselin.
Today's two weathervanes can be found atop The Colony in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts. This interesting business specializes in bee hives, bee keeping equipment, honey, and it is also a meadery ( mead is a fermented alcoholic beverage made with honey). Their farmhouse style building has two cupolas, and each has a fun weathervane.
The first weathervane is a silhouette of a bee keeper aiming a smoker at a beehive. It is two dimensional, but full of details, such as the netting on the bee keepers helmet, and the beehive has several levels. The second weathervane is also a two dimesional silhouette, but it features a very big bee sipping nectar from a blossom. The bee figure has wings, antenae, and even a striped abdomen. Very nice!
Thanks, Sue, for photographing these terrific weathervanes!
For the truly curious:
The Colony website: https://thecolonyma.com/
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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "A Bee and A Bee Keeper for Weathervane Wednesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 12, 2023, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/07/a-bee-and-bee-keeper-for-weathervane.html: accessed [access date]).
A great pair. Would you believe I have the same apiarist in my collection! Exactly the same vane! (I showed it to someone who thought it was a soldier shooting a gun...)
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