Category Archives: Okra Paradise Farms

Half way between Atlanta and Orlando and all the way to paradise!

Swamp boat burn 2020-03-02

Dogs like water more than fire.

Yellow Dog and camouflaged Brown Dog

And yes, Gretchen was putting out fires with a coffee cup and swamp water.

But she found something unexpected. Continue reading →

Video: Wasps 2020-04-12

Something to avoid on the water.

Wasp nest

As good a video as I could get, since I didn’t want to get any closer: https://youtu.be/ezt2ksMwz8I.

Stay tuned for great blue herons and a red-bellied woodpecker.

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Video: what is this floating bottom plant? 2020-04-12

Gretchen wants to know what is this plant that she found on the floating bottom?

She plucked it from here. Continue reading →

Azaleas, Pond, Dogs, Herons, Red-Bellied Woodpecker 2020-04-12

The dogs like this.

Dogs in boats

Some pretty things bloomed on the way to the pond. Continue reading →

Blooming pear tree 2020-03-02

Gretchen and the LeConte Pear tree.

Sniff

We might get some pears this year.

Smile

Thanks to the cousin who gave this tree to us.

And the nineteenth century cousin who found it. Here’s a story about that. Margie Love, Coastal Courier, originally 16 September 2007, updated 26 September 2011, Liberty’s LeConte pear was once famous.

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Brown Thrasher 2020-03-30

Seen through a window screen.

Hop

It’s the state bird of Georgia, a Brown Thrasher. Continue reading →

Swamp burn 2020-03-01

When you live in a fire forest, you must burn every few years. We caught up on about 23 acres of burning of piney woods, seepage slope, and swamp. All this was inside concentric rings of firebreaks, with no danger of it escaping off our property.

Don’t worry, for the wildlife there are plenty of brambles and woods and swamp unburned this year. More next year. And quail, gopher tortoises, and other wildlife don’t like the woods too thick anyway.

Gretchen spreading fire with a rake