Hive Location?

[SurprisingWoman]

I have a question.  I am getting my bees on Saturday.  We get a LOT of wind.  The trees in my town all bend to the west because I live in a mountain canyon.

I had planned on putting the hive back under the peach tree.  (image 1) You can see in the corner of the fence area where the red x is.  This are will not get sun until 10:00 or so.  It will get shade in the heat of the day.  The hive entrance will face the garden (which is fenced off to keep out our free rangers) and the area it will faced will not be worked a lot.  It is currently planted in lettuce and spinach.

If morning sun is more important I can put the hive here:  (image 2) and face it east.  It will be a pain to mow but we can work it out.  It will be in the wind and I will have to make a wind break but it should get morning sun.

What is the better choice?

a mod is going to have to add my image links so just use your imagination until then.

Links added eivindm:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87407543@N00/4542262878/# ~~~~~~~~ image 1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87407543@N00/4541652231/# ~~~~~~~~~ image 2

[Sparky]

Most face the hives in a East to South/East direction to take advantage of the sun, to get the girls started for the day. If you think you can give them a direction that would keep the wind from blowing directly into the hive it should be fine. If the branches grow to the west because of high winds, you may need to face them to the south and also provide some sort of wind break.

[Michael Bush]

If you have high winds, wind breaks may be a more important issue.  All locations are a comprimise.

http://www.bushfarms.com/beesfaqs.htm#locating

[eivindm]

Added your links now

[SurprisingWoman]

thanks for the links!