We're gonna have a bee banner!

I don't know when.

Margaret, I can always make a banner from one of your photos.

Congratulations Tabby.

Now tell Christine how to submit one so she can do it too.

Take your pick of the pictures Tabby I don't mind.

I just did you like said and sent them to Dave's email.

Cool, I'll look at the pictures later.

You don't have to send the banner photo to Dave, you can now post them yourself as long as they are 1200 x 150 exactly. Go to "Site Banners", on the right hand side of the page click on "Upload a banner". I just learned how to do this yesterday!!

Very cool Margaret! Thank you for that wonderful information.

Oh! And tabby ----

Your very welcome!

mcash70 said:You don't have to send the banner photo to Dave, you can now post them yourself as long as they are 1200 x 150 exactly. Go to "Site Banners", on the right hand side of the page click on "Upload a banner". I just learned how to do this yesterday!!

That makes it easy!
How'd I miss that?

Yeah!!

Tabby, whenever you have some spare time, would you mind telling me how to change the size of my photos for the banner? Do you change it in your photo program? I'll go look in mine and see what I can find out.

I know how I do it in Photoshop. It involves cropping and resizing.

Okay, I looked in my photo program and figured out how to change the pixel size to 1200 wide x 125 high but it stretches the picture so it doesn't look right... I tried cropping first but that didn't help do you know how I can fix this?

What's the original width of the picture?

the original width is 868 width x 722 high

You need to keep the proportions the same. It's usually easier to start with an image at least 1200 pixels wide so it doesn't look blurry when enlarging, but if you don't have that, then you need to stretch it to 1200 x 998, and then crop off the top and bottom so it's 150 tall.

Aha! I see. I think I can change my camera settings too. I'll have to look there. Thanks for your help, Tabby!

Does anyone know anything about this dark bee?
It looks different than most of the other honey bees I see around here. It's missing its orange stripe so all its stripes are black. Is it older than the other honeybees or just from a different group of bees?
It was a lot shyer than other honeybees and gave me fits trying to get a picture.

Look who we saw in one of the hives today!

Very nice! Love those busy little bees! And looking at the honey comb, what magnificent work they, so precise!

Ooooooo Queenie!

Oh! that's what Tabby is talking about! How did I miss her before?
Thanks Ann!