The pond was too dam high,
and the beavers were girdling trees far out from the usual shore,
so we set sail to pipe the beaver dam.
Dogs waiting for us to get the boat to the deep water:
Lily:
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Dogs in the swamp
Dogs in the swamp
Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman,
Video by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 21 April 2013.
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Afternoon pond
Floating bottom, Okra Paradise Farms, 22 July 2012
Gretchen, Yellow Dog, Brown Dog, and the floating meadow:
Gretchen, Yellow Dog, Brown Dog, and the floating meadow
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman, Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 22 July 2012.
Yellow flowers, Gretchen, Yellow Dog:
Continue readingDogs in swamp
Every dog should have a swamp:
To wade around in with her sister: Continue reading
Pointing brown dog
Brown dog wants Gretchen to know there’s something in that blackgum:
I’ll just stand like a statue until you see it.
Yellow dog helps point. Continue reading
Wood duck boxes:
Here’s a nice cypress: Continue reading
Mud!
Mud, mud,
Glorious mud! Continue reading
It’s the trees’ knees
Interlacing cypress knees:
This is the forest primeval.
More on flickr.
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman, 8 September 2009, Lowndes County, Georgia.
Swamp Still Full, Dog Ecstatic
Fay filled the swamp, but it’s been a week now, so time to check.
Why yes, the swamp is still full, and the dog is ecstatic?
Picture by Gretchen, 7 Sep 2008
How do you tell when a 100 pound Rotweiller is ecstatic? When she turns into an alligator.
The water is down a couple of inches as you can see by the watermarks, but it’s still pretty full.