These banana trees are only a few years old, but they’re making bananas.
![[Gretchen, Bananas, and dogs]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-09-14--bananas/many.jpg)
Plus a pack of four dogs!
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![[Gretchen and the banana bloom]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-09-14--bananas/20200914_084954.jpg)
Pack of Dogs 2020-08-31
Leash 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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Gretchen and Yellow Dog 2020-06-18
At going on 13 years old, Yellow Dog is an octogenarian in human years, with arthritis to show for it.
![[Yellow Dog and Gretchen]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-18--gretchen-yellow-dog/20200618_081514.jpg)
Brown Dog, who is the same age, was probably sleeping somewhere.
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Brown Dog in boat in pond 2020-06-14
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
Box turtle and oblivious Yellow Dog 2020-06-11
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
Dogs in beaver pond
Yellow Dog and Brown Dog cooling off in a beaver pond.
![[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 is represented by her camera there on the right.
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Gretchen and her Sycamore
She transplanted that tree when it wasn’t knee-high.
![[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)
Don’t tell her other trees she likes this one better. Continue reading
Video: Wasps 2020-04-12
Something to avoid on the water.
![[Wasp nest]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-04-12--azaleas-pond-dogs-herons-woodpecker/20200412_111955.jpg)
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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Video: what is this floating bottom plant? 2020-04-12
Gretchen wants to know what is this plant that she found on the floating bottom?
She plucked it from here. Continue reading
Azaleas, Pond, Dogs, Herons, Red-Bellied Woodpecker 2020-04-12
The dogs like this.
![[Dogs in boats]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-04-12--azaleas-pond-dogs-herons-woodpecker/20200412_111237.jpg)
Some pretty things bloomed on the way to the pond. Continue reading