Tall Tower

Today we put the bee escape on the Thistle hive so that we can harvest honey over the long weekend (the bee escape makes it so the bees can move downward, but not upward - so they'll empty out of the honey supers so we can harvest the honey). We can barely even call it the "Thistle" hive anymore though - I've already used my extra white box, cannibalized some supers from the Mint hive, and now I've even started using the boxes from an un-named third hive (we haven't named the yellow hive yet - perhaps sunflower, buttercup or sourgrass).

Here is the crazy multi-colored tower Thistle has become: