Shabby chic hives

Here are the hives.  Very shabby chic, if you ask me. Jim the Bee Man (who makes the hives himself) is currently making a screen to raise the height of the fence on the right so they don't fly directly over the path running down the side of the neighbor's house. 

They're not likely to hurt anyone, but by mid-afternoon right now we've got bees racing over the fence in the thousands per second. It can look pretty intimidating.