Blondie likes pine trees.
I like them better standing up, but she finds them easier to climb on this way.
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This slash pine was almost 100 years old when Hurricane Helene toppled it across our back driveway.
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That one almost caught me when it sprang up four feet.
26-inch pine with 18-inch chainsaw
That EGO 18-inch electric chainsaw will gnaw through big stuff eventually.
That slash pine tree was pushing 100 years old until Hurricane Helene. Continue reading
I heard a thwacking sound, looked up from the porch desk, and two pileated woodpeckers were on two, then one, pine tree.
Two pileated woodpeckers on a pine tree
The crosshatching is the porch screen wire.
These Dryocopus pileatus hang around here all the time, but they don’t usually come that close. That pine tree stob is about twenty feet outside the screen, or thirty (ten meters) from where I was sitting.
Eventually they flew off laughing, like they do.
Pileated woodpeckers mate for life, which would explain why this pair has been here a long time.
Don’t know if it’s always been the same pair, since we’ve been seeing them more than a decade, and apparently the oldest know was less than thirteen years old.
A pair of pileateds wants more than a hundred acres of territory, so they should be very happy here.
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This tree was struck by lightning almost two years ago and then pine beetles got into it. It’s been dead for more than a year, and it was leaning towards the house, so we had to take it down.
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John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman, Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Picture by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 18 June 2012.
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Heron in slash pine tree:
Here’s a slideshow.
Brown Dog and Yellow Dog in some red pine needles:
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman, Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 11 April 2012.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms.
And the reason why they’re red:
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