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Almost dry pond 2026-04-25

After chainsawing through late deadfall aftereffects of Hurricane Helene (trees weekend by that storm and blown down later), I took these pictures of the pond.

It’s very low. We’re in a drought, in case you haven’t heard.

Very low pond, 2026-04-25 –jsq for OPF

Here’s a video:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/822238487605857/

https://youtu.be/P4oOE9daMIU

No dogs this time. They find chainsawing boring.

No Gretchen, either. She ran away to the frozen north. Something about baseball and trains. Continue reading →

Beaver Ponds, Yellow Dog, Gretchen and her Sycamore 2021-02-20

It’s good to get a little exercise.

Log, Fungus, Yellow Dog, Sycamore

Gretchen likes heaving logs under the red maples.

Gretchen and her log

Red maple and beaver creek

Beaver Pond

Birds and dogs.

Gretchen and a beaver pond

Wide beaver pond

Fungus

We could get it down with a ladder.

Gretchen and the lion’s mane

But we left it there to grow again.

This moss grows all the time.

Old stob; might be catface

Woods

In her habitat.

Gretchen in the woods with vines

Yellow Woods Dog

Yellow Dog knows all the woods paths.

Upper Pond

This is also a beaver pond now, only larger than the others.

How about a boardwalk right through here?

Gretchen at the pond edge

Yellow Pond Dog

Dogs like mud.

Yellow Dog in the pond

Yes, that’s me, Yellow Dog

Sycamore

That tree was knee-high when we transplanted it.

Gretchen and her Sycamore

She likes that tree

-jsq

Dogs, creek, beaver pond 2016-11-05

Yellow Dog and Brown Dog convinced Gretchen Quarterman to walk a log across a beaver pond.

Here are a couple of videos and there are more pictures below. Continue reading →