Cleanly, those porch dogs are. After a walk, Honeybun stuck her head under the bathwater and paddled furiously. Nervous Nellie seemed more inclined to get a drink.
Yes, that’s beautyberry, Callicarpa americana, around the dog beauty bath.
![[Honeybun and Nervous Nellie in the beautyberry bathtub]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-10-22--dogs-beautyberry-bath/20201022_191346.jpg)
Honeybun and Nervous Nellie in the beautyberry bathtub
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These banana trees are only a few years old, but they’re making bananas.
Plus a pack of four dogs!
Continue readingLeash training day.
![[Honeybun and Nervous Nellie on their food deck, Brown Dog and Yellow Dog]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-08-31--pack-of-dogs/both.jpg)
Honeybun and Nervous Nellie on their food deck, Brown Dog and Yellow Dog
Nervous Nellie is also known as the Jackal, because she looks like one, and loves to skulk around and bark. She barks less as times goes on.
Oh, yeah: that’s Gretchen.
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At going on 13 years old, Yellow Dog is an octogenarian in human years, with arthritis to show for it.
Brown Dog, who is the same age, was probably sleeping somewhere.
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Brown Dog likes boats.
![[Brown Dog and Gretchen with halo]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-14--nests-azaleas-sycamore-pond-wasps-tanager-spider/20200614_194527.jpg)
Brown Dog and Gretchen with halo
Especially this old flatboat. Continue reading
Apparently box turtles don’t like blackberries, even when Gretchen offers them. And Yellow Dog doesn’t notice turtles.
![[Gretchen offers blackberry to turtle]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-11--turtle-dog/20200611_112541.jpg)
Gretchen offers blackberry to turtle
Yellow Dog and Brown Dog cooling off in a beaver pond.
Gretchen is represented by her camera there on the right.
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She transplanted that tree when it wasn’t knee-high.
Don’t tell her other trees she likes this one better. Continue reading
Something to avoid on the water.
As good a video as I could get, since I didn’t want to get any closer: https://youtu.be/ezt2ksMwz8I.
Stay tuned for great blue herons and a red-bellied woodpecker.
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Gretchen wants to know what is this plant that she found on the floating bottom?
She plucked it from here. Continue reading
![[Gretchen, Bananas, and dogs]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-09-14--bananas/many.jpg)
![[Gretchen and the banana bloom]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-09-14--bananas/20200914_084954.jpg)
![[Yellow Dog and Gretchen]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-18--gretchen-yellow-dog/20200618_081514.jpg)
![[Dogs in water]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-05-03--butterfly-snake-dogs-cormorant-heron-beavers-dogs-pond-longleaf-fencewire/20200503_141956.jpg)
![[Gretchen, her Sycamore]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-05-03--butterfly-snake-dogs-cormorant-heron-beavers-dogs-pond-longleaf-fencewire/20200503_155048-rot.jpg)
![[Wasp nest]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-04-12--azaleas-pond-dogs-herons-woodpecker/20200412_111955.jpg)