Blondie picked up this box turtle. She hadn’t harmed it.
Gretchen took the dogs elsewhere. I put the Terrapene Carolina back in the grass by the field. Continue reading
Blondie picked up this box turtle. She hadn’t harmed it.
Gretchen took the dogs elsewhere. I put the Terrapene Carolina back in the grass by the field. Continue reading
Gretchen got this native coral honeysuckle from some native plants people at A Day in the Woods a few years back, at the Gaskins Forest Education Center near Alapaha, Georgia.
It took a few years for this Lonicera sempervirens to establish itself, but it seems happy now. Continue reading
When you don’t bring a measuring device, measure in cubits!
Gretchen had recently lopped off the freeze-killed tops of these banana plants, and she was observing how much they had grown out since. Continue reading
Yesterday, Bob Gronko sent a picture of the bowl he made from a cherry log.
Cherry bowl Bob Gronko made from one of these cherry logs
He took a couple of the logs you see in this picture.
They came from the cherry tree I had to cut off the top of the corn crib after Hurricane Helene blew it onto there. Continue reading
Down the Not A Driveway, over and under the Hurricane Helene deadfalls, following the dog pack, lies an acre of wild azaleas, plus wild blueberries.
Blondie, Honeybun, Sky, River, over the deadfall into the wild azaleas
Some of these Rhododendron canescens are already blooming. Many more are just budding.
Wild azaleas, pine deadfall, and dog on Not A Driveway
Wild azaleas and loblolly pine cones
Wild azalea beneath oak deadfall
Closeup wild azalea beneath oak deadfall
“Here Spring was already busy about them: fronds pierced moss and mould,
… small flowers were opening in the turf, birds were
singing. Ithilien, the garden of Gondor now desolate kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness.”
—Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit, The Two Towers, JRR Tolkien
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A few days before, Gretchen whacked off the tops of these banana plants with a machete. She says this is necessary after they freeze in the winter.
That leaf measured a foot of growth.
River and Blondie assisted. -jsq
I almost stepped on it, and the dogs never saw it.
All four dogs walked right by this harmless (to dogs and humans) eastern garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis.
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This pollen fell in and washed in from the farm workshop roof.
This is the dirt pit used to dig fill to level the workshop. Pipes run from the workshop gutters into here.
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In case anybody has forgotten Hurricane Helene:
This is directly in front of our house. Continue reading