May 3, 2014 Denver, Colorado

I stayed the night at my friend Katy’s house. She is a bee keeper and she showed me her bees and hives and I tasted honey fresh out of the hive. I stood way back, used the telephoto.  She also has this great green house.

A robin has built a nest in her citronella candle. Meanwhile my brother in law Laurie who has had two knee surgeries for knee pain and getting ready to have his third this week, decided since it was legal here he wanted to see if medical marijuana helped with the pain. He went to the recreational store and purchased this candy bar with medical grade marijuana.

What was even more amazing was all of us clustered around him to take a photo of him having piece.  He determined that this product anyway did not help enough with the pain, but he cared a lot less about it. My garden is looking good, the cherry tree   the candy tuft and money plants are all blooming. .

Those of us who did not go to the store with him then had to go and see the store. Here is one case which had the types of marijuana with descriptions about them like bottles of fine wine, brownies on the bottom. There were many interesting products like skin cream for pain, patches, sprays, electronic cigarettes, but with dope instead of tobacco.  Many of the products do not have the ‘psychotropic’ part of the marijuana, or the part that makes you high. Seemed very weird to  be in a store, talking to a sales clerk about the ‘product’. Who would have thought. Here is the price list.

We had another nice dinner in the garden. Here is Laurie (his medical experience has worn off by now), Judy, John, Justin who is Reed’s son, Reed and Jerry.