It was the end of the work week, and I was happy to be at home this Friday night, anticipating the weekend.

But we got THE CALL....

Stephen's cousin  reported that he had a whole swarm of bees in a tree on his property on McElroy Pike.

Whatever plans we might have had that night were altered. We HAD to get those bees!!!!

We were definitely on a mission.

Stephen got into his bee suit and we were off to the location of the swarm, at his couisin's home on beautiful  McElroy Pike.

Several people were hanging around there, interested in how those bees would be collected.  Finding a swarm right in your front yard is not an every day occurance, and knowing the value of finding one is even more rare.

Here is the swarm as we saw it when we arrived:

And here it is, closer: