Lily pads reflecting sun:
Gretchen in the lilies:
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Otter
Carolyn saw this otter on her catfish pond dam yesterday:
Picture by Carolyn Selby, Lowndes County, Georgia, 3 February 2013.
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Plop!
Sounds you don't want your smart phone to make: "Plop!" as it falls out of your pocket into the pond.
Now you might think it would be easy to find, since you can plainly see it fell straight down. Nope, I've rummaged through the bottom all around with fingers, then with a potato fork. Nothing. I blame it on the beavers, who I think are facebooking with it.
Here's the video:
Plop!
Video of John S. Quarterman by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 22 April 2012.
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Floating bottom, Okra Paradise Farms, 22 July 2012
Gretchen, Yellow Dog, Brown Dog, and the floating meadow:
Gretchen, Yellow Dog, Brown Dog, and the floating meadow
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman, Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 22 July 2012.
Yellow flowers, Gretchen, Yellow Dog:
Continue readingLilies and minnows at the pond 2012-04-22
Lily:
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 22 April 2012.
Lilies:
Longleaf candling at the pond, Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 22 April 2012
We didn’t know there were any longleaf at the bottom of the pond, but the white candles are unmistakable:
Pictures of Longleaf pine (Pinus Palustris) by Gretchen Quarterman
for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 22 April 2012.
The needles are also longer than on the nearby slash pines:
Continue readingGreat Blue Heron, 22 April 2012
Heron in slash pine tree:
for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 22 April 2012.
Here’s a slideshow.
Lowered Beaver Pond
Did the
great beaver dam pipe experiment
succeed?
Why yes, yes it did. You can see one of the pipes underneath the second log. And the water in the beaver pond is clearly lower.
Maybe the beavers won’t
gnaw down as many trees.
Here’s where the water goes: Continue reading
Draining a Beaver Pond
We like beavers; they keep the water in our 12 acre pond.
But they’re getting a little too ambitious.
They’ve build another dam upstream, and they’re gnawing down trees.
So we decided to put a pipe through their dam to fool them
(this idea owed to David Fields).
This is an ordinary 4 inch perforated drain pipe, bought at North Lowndes Hardware. It needs to go through that dam I’m standing on. How do you do that? First remove a bunch of sticks (gloves are useful for this): Continue reading
What are these red things swimming in the pond water?
They’re alive, because they’re moving by themselves.
What are they?
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman, 27 Jan 2010, Lowndes County, Georgia.