A bright spot. It survived Hurricane Helene: the Little House the Three Stooges Built in the Woods.
![[Beyond tree roots]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-10-20--little-house-survived-hurricane-helene/20241020_094140.jpg)
Trees north and south of it blew west and missed it. Continue reading
Tag Archives: pines
Hurricane Helene 2024-09-27
Howling and bumping from about 11:30 PM to 2 AM. Hurricane Helene made Debby and Idalia sound like nothing.
And the morning light showed it was worse than that.
When we moved back here in 2007, old timers told us they remembered this oak on the back driveway from when they were young, early in the 20th century.
![[Ancient oak]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-09-27--hurricane-helene/20240927_073522.jpg)
This other oak just missed the red-iron building we were in. Continue reading
Pine pollen and yellow jessamine 2021-03-06
Spring has sprung, with yellow jessamine in full bloom, and the pines producing plenty of pollen.
![[Yellow jessamine, loblolly, longleaf]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2021-03-06--pine-pollen-yellow-jessamine/many.jpg)
Yellow jessamine, loblolly, longleaf
It was 35 degrees this morning, but freezes seem to be over. Continue reading
Dogs in pine straw
Smile, dogs:
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 19 October 2012.
The tree behind the dogs on their right is a longleaf four years old; the rest are loblolly five years old.
-jsq
Double rainbow in the okra field
Old Road
This is a road, at least a hundred years old, after a prescribed burn:
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman,
Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 4 March 2012.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman
Those are mostly slash pines (Pinus elliottii), with one or two longleaf and some oaks.
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Burning some piney woods 2012 01 31
Why to burn more frequently:
vines grow up trees and form ladder fuels
Prescribed burn of some piney woods at Okra Paradise Farms,
Lowndes County, Georgia.
Pictures and videos by John S. Quarterman and Gretchen Quarterman, 31 January 2012.
Pictures and videos by John S. Quarterman and Gretchen Quarterman, 31 January 2012.
Fortunately these vines were mostly in
invasive exotics anyway
(chinaberry, mimosa, Japanese privet) that had grown up along the field edge.
After a few minutes,
here’s the result.
Most of the rest of the woods burned much more evenly, with flames only a foot or two above the ground.