Cleanly, those porch dogs are. After a walk, Honeybun stuck her head under the bathwater and paddled furiously. Nervous Nellie seemed more inclined to get a drink.
Yes, that’s beautyberry, Callicarpa americana, around the dog beauty bath.
![[Honeybun and Nervous Nellie in the beautyberry bathtub]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-10-22--dogs-beautyberry-bath/20201022_191346.jpg)
Honeybun and Nervous Nellie in the beautyberry bathtub
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Around Okra Paradise Farms this morning.
![[Beautyberry with boats, bananas, and wood fire]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-10-04--beautyberry-banana-fire/many.jpg)
Beautyberry with boats, bananas, and wood fire
Also grapevine. And I keep pulling up Continue reading
These banana trees are only a few years old, but they’re making bananas.
Plus a pack of four dogs!
Continue readingLeash training day.
![[Honeybun and Nervous Nellie on their food deck, Brown Dog and Yellow Dog]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-08-31--pack-of-dogs/both.jpg)
Honeybun and Nervous Nellie on their food deck, Brown Dog and Yellow Dog
Nervous Nellie is also known as the Jackal, because she looks like one, and loves to skulk around and bark. She barks less as times goes on.
Oh, yeah: that’s Gretchen.
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Two colors of okra.
More every day, here at Okra Paradise Farms, halfway between Atlanta and Orlando and all the way to paradise.
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And some tomatoes, but those are all picked out now. I blanched and froze some, and ate the rest. Continue reading
They still look about that green, almost a month later:
But at least there are enough of them this year we may get some before the raccoons eat them all.
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Good thing I looked before walking into the corn:
Those wasps seemed quite at home on that corn leaf. Continue reading
What kind of bird makes these small nests?
![[Bigger than a hummingbird nest]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-14--nests-azaleas-sycamore-pond-wasps-tanager-spider/20200614_190246.jpg)
Bigger than a hummingbird nest
They’re too big to be hummingbird nests.
Gretchen spotted them, one in the woods, the other at the pond.
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We don’t have a cherry picker, but we do have a ladder and a roof.
![[Gretchen on the roof picking black cherries]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-21--gretchen-cherries-glass-house/20200621_092152.jpg)
Gretchen on the roof picking black cherries
Later, I didn’t take a picture as I was on the ladder picking behind my head.
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![[Scorpion and Lizard]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-10-17--scorpion-lizard/scorpion-lizard.jpg)
![[Gretchen, Bananas, and dogs]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-09-14--bananas/many.jpg)
![[Gretchen and the banana bloom]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-09-14--bananas/20200914_084954.jpg)
![[Okra, green and red]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-07-15--tomatoes-okra/20200715_152027.jpg)
![[Green Grapes]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-29-grapes-corn-wasps/20200629_094033.jpg)
![[Wasps on corn leaf]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-29-grapes-corn-wasps/20200629_094437.jpg)
![[Another nest, near the pond]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-14--nests-azaleas-sycamore-pond-wasps-tanager-spider/20200614_190636.jpg)