Again, Gretchen was the first to see a snake.
She still didn’t want me to pick it up, though.
-jsq
Again, Gretchen was the first to see a snake.
She still didn’t want me to pick it up, though.
-jsq
A walk in the woods one summer day.
Grapes, sycamore, banana, cypress swamp
Those grapes were ripe and tasty. Muscadine, Vitis rotundifolia. This is down by a beaver pond. Continue reading
A late June day.
Maypop, bananas, cypress swamp, Arrow in bathtub
A month later, the Passiflora incarnata are still blooming, there are more banana bunches now, there are puddles in the cypress swamp, and Arrow still likes to cool off in her bathtub. Continue reading
This gopher tortoise ran out of the back driveway into this thicket.
Gopher tortoise in the briar patch
This Gopherus polyphemus is hard to see in there. Continue reading
Update 2022-03-20: McCoy turpentine cup 2022-03-20.
It’s been 80 or 90 years since turpentining paid off the farm during the Great Depression. Yet we still find turpentine cups, and sometimes cat faces.
Downed catface with Carolina dog, closeup of turpentine cup
Blondie is a Carolina Dog, which is a native landrace breed, as in they bred themselves. Carolina Dogs were discovered in South Carolina in the 1970s, thus the name. They were living in longleaf pine forests and cypress swamps, just like where Blondie and Arrow (and Honeybun) live now in Georgia. Continue reading
Interpret this, facebook AI! Pair of dogs, ten years apart.
Yes, they are all Carolina Dogs. Continue reading
One last dog to teach box turtles are not play toys.
The turtle I transported to the far side where the dogs can’t find it. Continue reading