Your travel4seniors.com editor caught a flighty moment with his trusty camera. The elegant hotel maintains a colony of beehives on its roof garden.

Hummingbirds are there to provide the necessary pollination of the Fairmont flowers. The beehives produce 600 pounds of pure honey annually for hotel restaurant guests to use with tea, muffins, waffles and other sweet servings. www.fairmont.com/san-francisco