Mocassin
For the rest of the story, see Cottonmouth moccasin v Yellow Dog and Brown Dog @ OPF 2016-11-29.
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Tag Archives: Brown Dog
Rattler
Snaky motion across the road to Chesser Island, Okefenokee NWR, November 19th 2016.
Dog catching expedition
Gretchen yesterday saw a stray small dog with a collar cowering in a thicket, so she was trying again to catch it.
Yellow Dog on her new bed
The new dog bed
Brown Dog does not approve of Gretchen and Yellow Dog’s shenanigans.
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Dogs, creek, beaver pond 2016-11-05
Yellow Dog and Brown Dog convinced Gretchen Quarterman to walk a log across a beaver pond.
Here are a couple of videos and there are more pictures below. Continue reading
Grits and corn flower: red, white, blue, and yellow
Gretchen with Okra Paradise Farms grits and corn flour fresh from the mill: in four colors, including the rare blue 2016 vintage.
Never a pesticide was seen by these grits, and yes they are Continue reading
Skink 2016-10-17
Found this large lizard (at least seven inches long) in a large tub of water. He couldn’t seem to get out, so I set him on the side. After a while he went on his way.
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Dr. Elsie Quarterman, Plant Ecologist, at Cheekwood
A bench inscribed simply “Dr. Elsie Quarterman, Plant Ecologist” sits
under cedar trees in the herb garden at Cheekwood Botanical Garden;
appropriately for a scientist whose specialty was cedar glades.
She was involved with Cheekwood for many years, and was its Acting Director from 1967 to 1968. She helped establish the herb garden in which the bench sits. Continue reading
Box of okra
Usually we sell direct to people who want okra, but this particular day we had an overstock, and it turned out both Farmer Brown’s and Carter’s did, too, so this 25 pounds of prime okra went to Second Harvest.
If you want okra, Continue reading