Gretchen’s latest sale acquisition: a red flying saucer.
Here’s a bit of video:
https://youtu.be/Ez0yqAm6cfo
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Gretchen’s latest sale acquisition: a red flying saucer.
Here’s a bit of video:
https://youtu.be/Ez0yqAm6cfo
Continue reading
We went from drought to soggy in a week.
The crawfish like it.
Dogs like mud.
-jsq
Update 2024-06-16 The snake experts say it’s a black racer (Coluber constrictor). I’ve come around to that identification, because it doesn’t have the narrow neck and wide head of a rat snake, and its body is round in cross-section, not loaf-shaped. Also, it struck like a cornered black racer. See this reference. I was just surprised it didn’t run away fast like a typical black racer. Maybe four dogs made it think cornered. Anyway, black racers also eat rodents, so happy munching, snake.
All four dogs didn’t like this rat snake at the workshop door, although only Blondie and Honeybun feature in these pictures.
It appears to be an eastern rat snake (Pantherophis alleghaniensis), with the white under its chin and side of head and otherwise black body.
It did try to strike at the dogs when they got close, but once I called them off it slithered back under the bench, and onwards.
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This is Yellow Dog’s Halberd-leaved rose mallow (Hibiscus laevis).
Rosemallow, Yellow Dog, three years later
Three years ago, on June 12, 2021, it was the last one she saw. She was fourteen years old. Continue reading
A small turtle crossing the path to the garden. It’s maybe 4 inches long.
That’s Sky’s dog leg.
None of the dogs noticed until I’d been looking at the turtle for quite some time. Blondie, Honeybun, Sky, and River sniffed and moved along.
I think it’s a box turtle, but I didn’t pick it up to see, since it wasn’t in the way and it was in no danger.
-jsq
We were picking blackberries when this skeeter hawk landed on me.
The dragonfly just sat there for many minutes while I picked with my right hand.
Eventually it flew away.
The blackberries are very ripe and tasty.
-jsq
We were picking blackberries when this rainbow appeared.
River and Sky, the dark and pale dogs, are our two newest. They are both Carolina Dogs, a landrace breed.
Gretchen may have been annoyed that the cloud usually above her head had turned into a rainbow.
-jsq
I can’t find a turtle species that quite matches this reptile crossing the road. But the yellow inside shell isn’t like a gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus).
So what is it? Tortoise or turtle? And if turtle, what kind?
I set it on the other side towards where it was going. It hissed at me. Continue reading
Maybe finally we’ll get some okra.
The scarecrow seems to be keeping the critters out.
-jsq