It’s a Nepenthes.
Pretty sure it’s a Nepenthes mirabilis, which is common across southeast Asia. Yes, that makes it exotic here, but it’s very picky, so Continue reading
Good Lizard 2018-05-08
Good lizard!
Eat them roaches!
You can see this is quite a large lizard, since those shelves are made out of six-inch-wide floor boards. So that’s really more like 5.125 inch, but that lizard is quite a bit longer than that.
Eat more bugs, lizard, and get bigger!
-jsq
Longleaf small and large 2019-04-20
Sundew 2019-04-20
Found in the same spot as three years ago.
Presumably the common sundew, Drosera rotundifolia. Continue reading
Pitcher Plant 2019-04-20
First I’ve seen in the wild in these woods in more than forty years: a pitcher plant.
Presumably Sarracenia minor Walter. Continue reading
Planting Garden 2019-04-08
We planted a garden yesterday: peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, and okra.
Loosen roots, Planting
Continue readingB.W. Sinclair Dry Lake Road sawmill and Coffee Road 2019-02-10
“B W Sinclair also owned at one point some land along the Coffee Road,” says Wiregrass Region Digital History Project (WRDHP):
WRDHP photograph, apparently from Lowndes County records
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Magnetic variation 4° East Continue reading
Bowen Mill Pond in 1870 2019-02-07
Update 2019-02-10: His previous land on Coffee Road at Jackson Road, and family pictures.
Much to my surprise, according to evidence turned up by the
Wiregrass Region Digital History Project (WRDHP),
an owner of the mill at Bowen Mill Pond west of Quitman, Georgia
was my great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Waters Sinclair.
In an
WRDHP facebook post 2019-02-06:
We have created a series of maps overlaid upon a modern google earth
map that depict Continue reading 
Annotated detail from
WRDHP Google map of old Irwin County ca. 1870.
Gopher tortoise burrow in burned longleaf, with dogs 2019-01-27
After the prescribed burn, it’s a lot easier to see, and there are more gopher tortoise burrows than we thought.
Here’s another Gopherus polyphemus near the road. It’s good there are so many. Gophers are a keystone species, hosting Continue reading
Creosote 2019-01-24
Could this be a problem?
-jsq