Picking:
Picture of Gretchen Quarterman picking tomatoes by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 26 June 2012.
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Baby pumpkin @ Okra Paradise Farms 26 June 2012
Yellow Dog with a pumpkin:
Yellow Dog with a pumpkin
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Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 26 June 2012.
Yellow Dog guarding a pumpkin:
Continue readingBaby Zucca @ Okra Paradise Farms 26 June 2012
Here it is:
Here it is
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Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 26 June 2012.
It’s an Italian squash. Closeup:
100 foot dead tree
This tree was
struck by lightning almost two years ago and then pine beetles got into it. It’s been dead for more than a year, and it was leaning towards the house, so we had to take it down.
Distant
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Picture by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 18 June 2012.
Zoom:
Lightning striking a tree @ Okra Paradise Farms 3 August 2010
Gretchen went back inside after lightning struck a tree less than 100 feet from where she was taking this video two years ago. This is the tree we had to take down last week. Strike:
Strike
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman, Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 3 August 2010.
Streak:
Turtle eggs, Okra Paradise Farms, 21 June 2012
Well, that field turtle did lay eggs. Unfortunately something ate them:
Turtle eggs, Okra Paradise Farms: Unfortunately something ate them
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Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 21 June 2012
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Okra is Ready! @ Okra Paradise Farms, 21 June 2012
Okra is ready!
This big!
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 21 June 2012.
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Turtle, Okra Paradise Farms, 19 June 2012
Walking along a drainage ditch with the dogs, Gretchen saw this interesting turtle:
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman,
Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 19 June 2012.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms.
We think it’s probably a slider turtle, Trachemys scripta, but it’s hard to be sure. We didn’t pick it up, because it appeared to be laying eggs.
Big slider turtle, Okra Paradise Farms, 10 June 2012
The dogs alerted us to something in the woods near the house. Here it was, climbing a branch:
Big slider turtle, Okra Paradise Farms, 10 June 2012
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman,
Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms.
It's a slider turtle, Trachemys scripta. Here it is in corn silk (we'd just been shucking corn):
Continue readingZucca, Okra Paradise Farms, 16 June 2012
Zucca in the morning light:
Zucca, Okra Paradise Farms, 16 June 2012
Picture by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 16 June 2012.
It's an Italian squash that tastes like pumpkin and grows two feet long.
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