These two pictures may be related.
The one advantage of hurricanes is no shortage of firewood.
Here’s a movie:
https://youtu.be/oxhDmySUj9s Continue reading
These two pictures may be related.
The one advantage of hurricanes is no shortage of firewood.
Here’s a movie:
https://youtu.be/oxhDmySUj9s Continue reading
Here’s the sun rising over Woodhenge on the Fall Equinox.
Sunrise over Woodhenge, 2025-09-22 jsq for OPF
In Merrie Olde Englande they go to Stonehenge for this seasonal event. Here, we go to the arbor where we get the grapes for eating, jelly, wine, and vinegar. We call it Woodhenge, because it has wood posts. Continue reading
River Dog loves mud puddles, but Gretchen has a solution: vacuum the dog!
Blondie wonders, what are they doing to you? Continue reading
River really likes mud.
Sky and Blondie like to get their feet wet.
Honeybun cools off by sticking her head underwater. Continue reading
Twenty one species in a thousand feet down the Not-a-Driveway from piney woods through seepage slope to beaver pond.
Plus Canis familiaris and garden variety human. While we did not see any beaver, Castor canadensis, there was quite a bit of evidence of them.
Species identifications are by Seek by iNaturalist, which is usually pretty reliable. I do doubt a few of them.
For example, what seek identifies as Pineland hibiscus, Hibiscus aculeatus, sure looks to me like halberd-leaf rosemallow, Hibiscus laevis.
Far more species than these live in our subtropical paradise. These are just the plants (and fungi) I happened to focus on today.
Ten-angled pipewort or bog button, Eriocaulon decangulare, 2025:06:15 09:52:26
The power came back on about 20 minutes later.
Trucks for Colquitt EMC on Hambrick Road during a power outage, 2025:06:09 15:35:12, https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0148245,-83.2695067,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0
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The watering house indicates the rows with cane. They also continue beyond the middle where the hoses start.
Watering hose just before the rains
This was just before the rains started. Three inches so far, so no hose watering since then.
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After the east side, here are the two drainage ditches on the west side of Quarterman Road.
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Update 2025-05-06: And the west road ditches 2025-05-04.
Day before yesterday Lowndes County Public Works worked on the drainage ditches on Quarterman Road, after they made a mud puddle after the big rain. Yesterday they had finished all three ditches, including the one near Hambrick Road.
Near Hambrick Road, 2025:05:01 11:56:53