Tag Archives: Okra Paradise Farms

Shelling corn

Gretchen Quarterman shelling corn.

Terry Davis is preparing by shelling one end so it starts in the device easier. Video:

Red cobs and blowing chaff:

Yellow Dog and her snake

My snake!

Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 11 October 2012.

The dogs barked up a storm while I was picking okra, and by the time I got there the snake was in sad shape. Too bad, as I keep explaining to Brown Dog and Yellow Dog, snakes eat mice.

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Corn in trailer with rising moon

Finished picking a trailer full of corn; now cover it.

Cloud colors, picker, trailer, and moon:

Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 September 2012.

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Dogs playing @ Okra Paradise Farms 2012-09-28

Dogs being dogs:

Pictures and video by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 September 2012.

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Skeeter hawk in the okra

Skeeterhawk says, “come get your okra at Valdosta Farm Days today, at the historic Lowndes County courthouse, corner of Patterson and Central!”

Video:

Pictures and video by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 26 September 2012.

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Honeybees and pollen

They move around pretty fast:

You can see pollen on the legs of the one on the right:

Here they are flying around:

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Morning glory in the okra

It's a weed, but it doesn't do much harm, and it's blue:

Blooming morning glory in the okra
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 26 September 2012.

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Black Snake

A snakey present from the dogs:

Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 14 September 2012.

I like snakes: they eat rodents, and I’m allergic to rodents. But the dogs don’t like snakes that trespass on their area near the house. They left this one in the middle of the walkway from the house to the carport. You see it in the truck on the way to somewhere else.

I think Yellow Dog is nostalgic for her YouTube hit, Black Snake vs. Yellow Dog. They look mild-mannered, Yellow Dog and Brown Dog, but so far a beaver, a raccoon, several rattlesnakes, and two kinds of water moccassins have found tangling with the dogs is not a good idea.

Although that copperhead did give Yellow Dog a bit of a hangover. Here Yellow Dog thanks you for your concern.