Spring has sprung.
Rhododendron canescens, native wild azalea.
Interpret this, facebook AI! Pair of dogs, ten years apart.
Yes, they are all Carolina Dogs. Continue reading
One last dog to teach box turtles are not play toys.
The turtle I transported to the far side where the dogs can’t find it. Continue reading
Tasty for breakfast.
Gretchen planted these bananas only a few years ago, when they were not even knee high. Look at the banana jungle now!
Ripe bananas, bees, dog, flowers
The dogs alerted me to this.
Fortunately, they kept their distance.
How many rattles do you count?
-jsq
Below the longleaf pines, in a thicket: ten turkey eggs. Mama turkey flew up in a tree. Turkeys lay one egg a day, so it took her ten days to deposit those.
The dogs found them. Honeybun made off with another egg in her mouth. Blondie covered the getaway. Continue reading
Yellow Dog in the white corn as it tassles.
Yellow Dog would follow me every morning as I hoed the corn. Continue reading
May has been a bit of a tumultuous month for us on the farm. At the beginning of the month, our Nellie was killed by truck on GA122, at Hagan Bridge. It has stunned us all that such a horrible thing could happen to our pack. Our grieving has been deep and continues.
However, we are lucky to welcome Blondie to the fold. She is a one year old Carolina dog and Honeybun and Yellow Dog are now showing her around the farm, introducing her to the delights of the woods, the fields, and the swamp. We don’t know much about her, she was a stray that managed to find her way to a rescue organization, and from there to us.