Tag Archives: Gretchen Quarterman

Conflused Treat’s Rain Lily 2023-09-06

A week after Hurricane Idalia, this Treat’s Rain Lily was blooming.

Treat’s Rain Lily

Normally they bloom in the spring. Continue reading →

Caught one possum 2023-09-07

Trapped one possum.

Blondie and the possum

There are more under the house.

Now to set the trap again.

And maybe the dogs can catch some.

The ones we trap, we take far enough away they won’t come back.

We can bring you some, if you like.

Fair warning: they eat insulation from electrical wires and cause shorts.

-jsq

Hurricane Idalia and aftermath 2023-09-02

A few scenes from during and after Hurricane Idalia.

We had many deadfalls, but no property or personal damage. So we were much luckier than many others.

Deadfalls, power lines, cooking, rainfall

This still just looks like heavy rain, but the video shows the wind was blowing. Idalia’s eye went a few miles east of us, but those were probably still 60 mph winds from the north. Continue reading →

Petition: Stop rezoning on Quarterman Road 2023-08-28

Update 2023-08-24: Packet: Two county rezonings, one plainly inappropriate @ GLPC 2023-08-28.

Please sign and share this petition:

https://chng.it/LDW47QsdSd

We the undersigned ask that the request for 2.5 acre lots on Quarterman Road be denied.
The smallest appropriate acreage in our area is the EA minimum of 5 acres.
Rural rezonings like this lead to additional developments in the future. We don’t want it now and we don’t want it later.
We ask the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission to recommend denial in its August meeting.
We ask the Lowndes County Commission to deny in its September meeting.

Rezoning sign, site, Quarterman Road, Zoning Map, Agriculture/Forestry/Conservation Character Area

R-A allows 2.5-acre lots, while E-A allows only down to 5-acre lots. That is inappropriate on Quarterman Road, where there is no R-A, and the entire road is in the Agriculture/Forestry/Conservation Character Area. Many of us fought to preserve that Character Area only two years ago. Just last year we fought off a Dollar General on GA-122 at Skipper Bridge Road, in the same Character Area.

Now let’s stop this rezoning in the same Character Area.

According to the Lowndes County Unified Land Development Code (ULDC), Continue reading →

Snake in driveway 2023-08-08

Why are you lying in the driveway, snake?

Nice snake

Don’t you know there are dogs here?

Didn’t matter: the dogs never noticed.

-jsq

Smilax, Grapevine, Beautyberry, Swing 2023-08-18

A place to watch the garden.

Swing with arbor of Smilax, Grapevine, and Beautyberry (fb)

The real canopy is oaks and pines above.

-jsq

Snake in the Straw 2023-08-07

Snake in the pine straw by the not-a-driveway.

Snake in the pine straw

Appears to be a black racer, Coluber constrictor. It lived up to its name by vanishing in an instant.

Black racers are harmless to humans. They eat small mice and rats, and anything else they can catch, such as toads, frogs, and lizards.

The dogs never even noticed this snake.

-jsq

Maypop, woods pea, pokeberry, dogs 2023-07-09

Along the back driveway one summer noon.

Maypop, Pea, Pokeberry, Dogs 2023-07-09

Continue reading →

Snake and dogs 2023-07-10

Calling herpetologists.

Snake and dogs 2023-07-10

It’s definitely not a rattlesnake. Doesn’t seem to be any sort of venemous serpent. Probably just a rat snake. Continue reading →

Pond, Dogs, Snake 2023-07-04

What kind of snake is this?

Snake on the lily pad

Probably not a moccasin, because it doesn’t have any stripes, and I’ve never seen one leave its tail sticking out like that. Usually a cottonmouth will face you and hiss.

The dogs found another snake earlier that probably was a moccasin, so we made them come along.

Blondie joins Arrow exploring