We went from drought to soggy in a week.
The crawfish like it.
Dogs like mud.
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We went from drought to soggy in a week.
The crawfish like it.
Dogs like mud.
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We were picking blackberries when this rainbow appeared.
River and Sky, the dark and pale dogs, are our two newest. They are both Carolina Dogs, a landrace breed.
Gretchen may have been annoyed that the cloud usually above her head had turned into a rainbow.
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They gave an eclipse and all I got was this sliver.
Pinhole in one sheet of paper held over another.
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Continue readingA few scenes from during and after Hurricane Idalia.
We had many deadfalls, but no property or personal damage. So we were much luckier than many others.
Deadfalls, power lines, cooking, rainfall
This still just looks like heavy rain, but the video shows the wind was blowing. Idalia’s eye went a few miles east of us, but those were probably still 60 mph winds from the north. Continue reading
Some weeks ago, lightning struck a bunch of trees and killed them.
During Hurricane Nicole, two of them fell across the front driveway.
A little chainsaw work cleared the driveway.
Lightning, Hurricane, Chainsaw
These two pictures are from November 5, 2022. Notice how the dead trees are in a line. Continue reading
Now that it’s raining, there are many native, tasty, showy maypops. Also known as passion flower, Passiflora incarnata.
Unfortunately, there is also nasty invasive exotic Japanese climbing fern, Lygodium japonicum. Continue reading
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
A month of no rain ended mid-June, capped by 3.5 inches July 4th and another 3 inches July 5th, according to the bucket-and-yardstick rain gauge. Our cypress swamp, which had only puddles, is now full and overflowing.
3.5 + 6 inches of rain, cypress swamp
That chair was above the cypress swamp high water mark for this year. Now it’s in the water.
I’m renaming the front driveway Twin Creeks. Most of its flow goes into the swamp. Continue reading