Bees in the Gravenstein apples and the Brooks plum. Looked like maybe a few migratory bees around today. Pear orchards are blooming and the cherries are just starting to.

#BloomScrollingWithBee #bees #HoneyBee #pollinators #AppleTree #PlumTree #orchard #pollination #FruitTree #April16 #beekeeping

The Comice pear has open blooms and the Spitzenburg apple tree that's on it's own roots is showing some pink.

#orchard #FruitBlossom #PearBlossom #AppleBlossom #EsopusSpitzenburg #AppleTree #PearTree #gardening #garden #GrowYourOwn #April16

April 16

This day in history:

• 1963 – U.S. civil rights campaigner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes his open letter from Birmingham Jail, sometimes known as "The Negro Is Your Brother", while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama, for protesting against segregation.
• 73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish–Roman War.
• 1863 – American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
• 1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.

Births:

• 1971 – Cameron Blades, Australian rugby player
• 1940 – Thomas Stonor, 7th Baron Camoys, English banker and politician, Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom (d. 2023)
• 1922 – Lawrence N. Guarino, American colonel (d. 2014)

Deaths:

• 2014 – Gyude Bryant, Liberian businessman and politician (b. 1949)
• 1999 – Skip Spence, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
• 1942 – Denis St. George Daly, Irish polo player (b. 1862)

Holidays:

• National Healthcare Decisions Day (United States)
• Birthday of José de Diego (Puerto Rico, United States)
• Remembrance of Chemical Attack on Balisan and Sheikh Wasan (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Random Article of the day:

Dennis Iapichino

One Jonathan apple blossom open. It's on the 1 out of 4 branches/leaders of a Gravenstein tree. I guess some of the early Gravenstein bloom will be pollinated.

#orchard #AppleTree #AppleBlossom #pollinators #gardening #garden #Malus #April16 #HoneyBee #bees #bee

A small native pollinator on the Imperial Epineuse Plum, Prunus domestica.

#orchard #prunus #NativePollinators #bee #bees #FruitBlossom #PlumBlossom #gardening #April16

The red currants are blooming and getting pollinated.

#gardening #pollinators #FruitBlossoms #HoneyBee #RedCurrant #GreenFlowers #bees #garden #April16 #BloomScrollingWithBee

Tomatoes and tomatillo thinned to one, and the 2024 Gravenstein scion wood rooting attempt had lots of leaf. I put a little rooting hormone in the water but it's old so I've ordered some new. The cuttings are bagged and off to the side so they're not getting full light.

#gardening #GrowYourOwn #tomatoes #tomatillo #propagation #garden #GrowLights #April16

Russia-Ukraine war: Frontline update as of April 16

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russia-ukraine-war-frontline-update-as-of-1744818748.html

#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #April16 #army #update #Frontline #war #Russia #WarCriminal #occupiers #defenders
#перемогаYкраїни

April 16

This day in history:

• 1919 – Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
• 1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
• 1942 – King George VI awarded the George Cross to the people of Malta in appreciation of their heroism.
• 2014 – The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304 passengers and crew and leading to widespread criticism of the South Korean government, media, and shipping authorities.

Births:

• 1923 – Warren Barker, American composer (d. 2006)
• 1728 – Joseph Black, French-Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1799)
• 1986 – Peter Regin, Danish ice hockey player

Deaths:

• 1958 – Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist and academic (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Mexican architect, designed the Tijuana Cultural Center and National Museum of Anthropology (b. 1919)
• 1899 – Emilio Jacinto, Filipino journalist and activist (b. 1875)

Holidays:

• Birthday of Queen Margrethe II (Denmark)
• Remembrance of Chemical Attack on Balisan and Sheikh Wasan (Iraqi Kurdistan)
• Birthday of José de Diego (Puerto Rico, United States)

Random Article of the day:

Taranysh

Taranysh (Russian: Тараныш) is a rural locality (a village) in Beryozovsky District, Perm Krai, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2010.