SILVER LAKE - When you think of McDonald's farm you would assume they would raise cattle, horses, chickens and pigs.
Not so for Jack and Marilyn McDonald, of CR 1000S, Silver Lake.
Hanging from a Maple tree in their front yard is a bee hive. While most bees find a knot hole in a tree to build their hives, these bees opted for more daring housing, approximately 20 feet in the air.
What started out as a single honeycomb hanging from the tree at the start of summer has now become eight sections of honeycomb hanging outside of the tree.
When the fall rains and wind blew the leaves off of the tree it made the hive more visible. The limbs banging against the hive and the onset of colder weather caused the bees to crawl up between the sections.
Having lived on this farm since 1962, Jack said he's never seen one hanging outside of a tree before.
When asked if he had thought about removing the hive, Jack said, "I thought about putting a ladder up there but I'm afraid to. I'm just going to 'let them bee.'"
