The yellow dog is right: I burned those trees! Before picture of one of them: Continue reading
Burned-over longleaf
“What? I didn’t do it!” says the yellow dog.
Tag Archives: Georgia
Factory Chickens
We were just driving and
these were in front of us:
I recognized them from Food, Inc. They get them out of the chicken houses at night. It was maybe around 8 o’clock in the morning. (7:51 according to the timestamp.) According to Food, Inc., they’re put in the cages as little babies, and they put the sides down. These chickens have probably never seen daylight before: Continue reading
Wild azaleas blooming in the sunset, March 2011
Rhodendrum canescens, the native southeast U.S. azalea:
Nope, not honeysuckle: that’s a vine; these azaleas grow on a bush.
These ones had not quite opened yet: Continue reading
Planted longleaf pines, 17 March 2011
Pinus palustris of various sizes.
We planted these trees four years ago.
This one is bolting up from grass stage.
Bottle brush stage (plus starting some branches): Continue reading
Collards blooming, 17 March 2011
Collard greens reproducing themselves.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 17 March 2011.
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Potato, 17 March 2011
Plain old Irish potato.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 17 March 2011.
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Blackberries blooming
Rubus some native species or other in the woods:
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 17 March 2011.
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Dogwoods blooming, 17 March 2011
Cornus florida in the woods:
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 17 March 2011.
More dogwoods of previous years.
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Corn snake
Gretchen was very amused to see me do the snake dance.
This corn snake was lying in the path at the edge of the field,
and I almost stepped on it.
Probably it was sunning itself to get warm.
It’s harmless, except to small rodents that live in corn fields. Elaphe guttata is a constrictor. This one was 3 or 4 feet long. They’re native to the U.S. southeast from New Jersey to Texas. I did not know until that day that corn snakes can climb trees.
Here he is stretched out: Continue reading
Yellow jessamine
These flowers opened on the last day of February 2011.
Gelsemium sempervirens is
a high-climbing, woody vine that is known by several names, including Carolina jessamine, poor man’s rope, or yellow jasmin.It smells good. It’s native to the U.S. southeast.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 February 2011.
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