Tag Archives: Gretchen Quarterman

Snake of the other day 2022-08-17

Mark it on the calendar: first time Gretchen ever saw a snake first.

Canebrake rattlesnake

All the dogs and I walked right past this timber rattler in the front driveway.

She didn’t think I should pick up this Crotalus horridus. I don’t know why.

-jsq

Grapes, beaver pond, sycamore, beggarticks, bananas, cypress swamp, dogs 2022-08-10

A walk in the woods one summer day.

Grapes, sycamore, banana, cypress swamp

Those grapes were ripe and tasty. Muscadine, Vitis rotundifolia. This is down by a beaver pond. Continue reading →

Bat on porch screen 2022-07-26

Not what you expect to see on the screen into the porch.

Bat on screen and in bag

Didn’t seem to be anything wrong with the bat. So I put it in a paper bag and set it on some greenery in the woods where the dogs could not reach. Continue reading →

Maypop, bananas, Arrow in bathtub 2022-06-27

A late June day.

Maypop, bananas, cypress swamp, Arrow in bathtub

A month later, the Passiflora incarnata are still blooming, there are more banana bunches now, there are puddles in the cypress swamp, and Arrow still likes to cool off in her bathtub. Continue reading →