Drought Honey
About 2 weeks ago Gary went to work on a well at a place where they sell honey. The lady gave him this jar of it. It is quite different. I am not sure how accurately this photo captures the color, but it is unusually dark. She told Gary that this honey was from last summer. Last summer we had a drought. There were few, if any, wild flowers blooming, so the lady said the bees had to source their pollen from other plants, resulting in a much, much lower honey production and much darker honey. (And another note; I thought perhaps she had just bottled it up so something because it had a bit of foam on it, and bubbles in the honey in the jar. But Gary said she had just handed him the jar, as is, straight off the shelf.) I took some of it over to a friend for her to sample, because I thought it was so interesting. When she opened the jar the first thing she said was; "Oh, it smells like whiskey!" This made me laugh. Yes, it d...