Photo archive for July 20, 2008
Madilynn, an 8-month-old long-haired Chihuahua, nestles in the jacket of Ian Hendrickson as he lines up a putt during the Golden Days Mini Golf Tournament on Sunday afternoon, July 20, 2008, in Pioneer Park. Hendrickson and his girlfriend, Candice Lowndes (Madilynn’s owner), were in town from Anchorage attending Golden Days festivities to fulfill Lowndes’s Miss Teen Alaska duties.
A common honeybee pollinates a wildflower in Southeast Alaska on July 17, 2008. Honeybees account for more than 80 percent of all insect pollination. Bees also provide pollen (one of the richest and purest natural foods), honey (an easily digestible, pure food with antibacterial qualities), beeswax (used in drugs, cosmetics, artists' materials, furniture polish and candles), propolis (a health aid, and basis for fine wood varnishes), royal jelly (commands premium prices rivaling imported caviar, and is used by some as a dietary supplement and fertility stimulant), and bee venom ("Bee venom therapy" is widely practiced overseas and by some in the United States to address health problems such as arthritis, neuralgia, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and even MS).
