We burn so the longleaf and the other pine trees can flourish.
Some bits of wood smoke for a while after the fire.
Don’t worry: in a few weeks, the whole burned area will be green again.
-jsq
We burn so the longleaf and the other pine trees can flourish.
Some bits of wood smoke for a while after the fire.
Don’t worry: in a few weeks, the whole burned area will be green again.
-jsq
Update 2022-01-12: Starlink Router inside 2022-01-10.
Turns out Starlink doesn’t work too well during thunderstorms. Other than that, so far so good.
Longleaf, solar panels, roof mount
Also looks good against longleaf pine. Continue reading
Fortunately, when the bee tree snapped off, it broke above the bee hive. So our pollinating native bees are still humming in and out of there. Their exit used to be on the other side of the tree, but they’re using this new entrance now.
I guess they will relocate, but at least they did not get suddenly evicted.
The bee tree was far from the largest of the fourteen big trees down we’ve counted so far. Two more were less than a hundred feet away towards the cypress swamp. Continue reading
Below the longleaf pines, in a thicket: ten turkey eggs. Mama turkey flew up in a tree. Turkeys lay one egg a day, so it took her ten days to deposit those.
The dogs found them. Honeybun made off with another egg in her mouth. Blondie covered the getaway. Continue reading
The frogs sang as the sparks flew upward.
This one could be my favorite: Continue reading
Spring has sprung, with yellow jessamine in full bloom, and the pines producing plenty of pollen.
Yellow jessamine, loblolly, longleaf
It was 35 degrees this morning, but freezes seem to be over. Continue reading
Surprisingly clear shortly after dark, with only a phone: three planets and a moon.
The famous alignment of Jupiter and Saturn, off the starboard bow of Earth’s moon.
And, towards the east and way up, the red planet, framed in longleaf pine trees.
-jsq
The firebird appears to be a Carolina wren.
This Thryothorus ludovicianus didn’t seem to mind that I was three feet from it. Continue readingWhen you live in a fire forest, you must burn every few years. We caught up on about 23 acres of burning of piney woods, seepage slope, and swamp. All this was inside concentric rings of firebreaks, with no danger of it escaping off our property.
Don’t worry, for the wildlife there are plenty of brambles and woods and swamp unburned this year. More next year. And quail, gopher tortoises, and other wildlife don’t like the woods too thick anyway.
Gretchen spreading fire with a rake
For why we burn, see Continue reading