Beehives in Turkey 1996

This is a photo taken during a trip in Turkey in Cappadocia in the autumn or winter of 1996. It was either in Goreme or Kayseri or one of the nearby villages with their specific rock-cut churches, mosques and nowadays hotels. Each family used to dig and enlarge the family house in this troglodyte manner, adding a chamber by digging in the sedimentary wall behind. It looked impressively like a man-made termite mound architecture. I was quite young at the time, returning back from a year in Anchorage, Alaska after i finished my high school there. It was a great trip, joining an art critic friend and his artist pals. We had a great time there. This particular instance has to do with a beehive up high in the village. it was at the entrance of a man-made cave(usual in the region) and it stood somehow outside the village (maybe it was considered dangerous?!). We climbed up, heard the familiar buzz and watched with curiosity this row of longitudinal oldskool beehives sitting in the sun, semi-protected with a rag and straw. They stayed on top of row of broken stones. In the back u can actually see bigger beehives sitting in the shade.