honey

Flores’ western honey bees, Apis mellifera, had been staying on the farm in Somis for the winter, feeding on the nearby pepper trees and eucalyptus to help get them through to spring.

The concoction was flavored with honey, sesame seeds, pine nuts, licorice and grapes, which were commonly used to make the beverage look like blood.

“I do what I do,” she said, “because I don’t want anybody to go through what I went through. I’ll say this — I caught hell with a catcher’s mitt, honey.”

“Sure did, honey,” the woman replies, before Roberts asks viewers to vote for the Harris-Walz ticket.

The honey always felt like a talisman of sorts, hoping its sweetness would last, and not become eclipsed by sorrow.