New queen?

I've been really stressed lately about the bees.  I combined the two hives, but they didn't seem to be very friendly to each other.  I did a quick check a few days ago and I didn't see my old queen, which was marked.  From what I could tell, not only did the combine not go well, but my old queen was dead.

I checked the hive again tonight and, to my amazement, I found brood--lots of brood.  I went through and checked every piece of comb for the queen, but I couldn't find her.  Either a new queen just hadn't started laying yet when I checked before, or the bees killed my old queen when I did the combine and made their own.  In any case, there is a lot of brood with a honey dome around them and the bees seemed a lot happier.  Now that the combine is done, I'll start feeding them again to make sure they have enough for the winter.  Here's a picture of what I found when I opened the hive.

Now if I could just find a way to have Congress pass a budget . . .