Bee season

Julianne Britt, right, inspects her family’s new bee hive Tuesday at Werner’s Trading Company with her sister Josephine. The Britt family picked up two hives at Werner’s, just in time to turn the bees loose on the vegetation this week at their Holly Pond home.

Bee shipments are becoming an annual tradition at the Cullman store, where owner Rob Werner — himself a bee enthusiast — anticipates, and then fills, local demand each spring.