A month of no rain ended mid-June, capped by 3.5 inches July 4th and another 3 inches July 5th, according to the bucket-and-yardstick rain gauge. Our cypress swamp, which had only puddles, is now full and overflowing.
![[3.5 + 6 inches of rain, cypress swamp]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2021-07-05--bucket-rain-gauge-swamp-caterpillar/many.jpg)
3.5 + 6 inches of rain, cypress swamp
That chair was above the cypress swamp high water mark for this year. Now it’s in the water.
I’m renaming the front driveway Twin Creeks. Most of its flow goes into the swamp. Continue reading
Gretchen left these plants locked inside, but while she wasn’t looking they escaped.
They’ll have to go back inside tomorrow; freeze predicted. Continue reading
Fall has fallen.
Or maybe the thermometer is broken.
But there are brown oak leaves everywhere.
-jsq
Snowmaggeddon was a good day to stay off the roads, so I took a kayak on our pond. Saw buzzards, heard some ducks and probably a beaver. Lots of plants looking very strange.
Ice on pond, Put-in
Clear spot under log, Put-in
Frozen, Put-in
Snow behind, The pond
Ice floe, The pond
Two ice, The pond
More ice ahead, The pond
Various plants, Floating bottom
Tree limbs, Floating bottom
Snow drift, Floating bottom
Frozen, Floating bottom
Siberia, Floating bottom
Detail, Floating bottom
Grass, Floating bottom
Heron tree, Floating bottom
Mistletoe, East Shore
Ice mistletoe, East Shore
Slant to mistletoe, East Shore
Water colors, Center
Ice and fluff, Center
Ice tuft water, Center
Floating bottom edge, Center
Lily and bladderwort, Center
Near and far, Center
Movie: Wind and ice (16M), Beaver houses
Video
Beaver mansions, Beaver houses
Closer, Beaver houses
Closeup, Beaver houses
Movie: Icy beaver dam (20M), Between dams
Video
More ice below, Between dams
Along the beaver dam, Between dams
Sky, Between dams
Shiny ice, Between dams
Shiny shore, Between dams
Paddle and shore, Catface
Shore, Catface
Lily ice, Turn back
Lily, Turn back
Ice, Turn back
With banana boat for scale, Big beaver house
East slope, Big beaver house
Top, Big beaver house
Two flowers, Yellow jessamine
Beaver house, jessamine, Yellow jessamine
Ice, East shore
Ice encroaching on lily pads, East shore
Ice pad closeup, East shore
Cypress portrait, Northwards
Far shore, Northwards
Video playlist.
-jsq
I did eventually break the ice for the dogs, but then they said the water was too cold. Lots of odd stuff during Snowmageddon.
Come on down this morning to PineVale Elementary and learn about growing things in our south Georgia subtropical climate! It’s rainy this morning and afternoon, and breezy all day; a great day for growing, and South Georgia Growing Local will be inside a new venue with cooking facilities!
When:
9AM-4:30 PM, Saturday, January 21st 2017
Where: Pinevale Elementary School, 930 Lake Park Road, Valdosta GA.
Web: page with schedule.
If you’re still not convinced, watch Gretchen explain it on the radio with Continue reading
Rainbow and longleaf pines in the sunshine:
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 14 July 2013.
Terry Davis saw it first.
-jsq
Storm front seen from GA 122 near the Withlacoochee River:
You can see it moving right to left (east to west) in this video:
Continue reading![[All the plants]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-12-13--plants-escaped/many.jpg)
