Bee Hive's painted and prettied

I burned some pretty designs in the bee hives, just for fun. But I noticed that the native bee hives that I did this for last year, the wood burning design as faded and is almost invisible. Sad. But at least I'll get to enjoy it for a while.

Bee's when you have more than one hive can 'drift' into another hive and sometimes one hive will end up stronger than another, simply because it has more bee's in it. But drifting isn't as big an issue if you give the girls an address. That's what I originally meant the burned designs to be. But Jim our master beekeeper said they look for colors rather than designs. But since I had painted the bee hives in linseed oil and beeswax mix no paint was getting into them. We improvised and nailed an untreated piece of wood to the front of the hive to paint, that way the paint would have something to stick to.

Yellow and green. We had green left over from painting our house, the yellow we had to purchase though.
Here's the hive's pretty burned design side for us and the colored painted wood side for the bees.