Tag Archives: Gretchen Quarterman

Purple okra flower and pod

Update: That was actually a green okra. Here’s a real purple okra and here are purple, orange, and green compared.
A purple okra! Just you wait, orange okra, in a day or so we’ll see who’s purple.

A purple okra!

Purple okra flower:

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Orange Okra almost ready

This is the same orange okra pod seen picked a couple days later:

Orange Okra
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 17 June 2013.

We’re still waiting for more to get ready. Picking plenty of green okra meanwhile.

-jsq

Corn snake in the hand

Snake in the grass and in the hand:

Snake in the grass Snake in the hand

Yellow Dog caught this snake by the swamp. She set it down when I told her too (I was surprised). When she and Brown Dog went off in the brush, I picked it up to transport it where they wouldn’t get it again. Snake on the skin: Continue reading →

Potatoes to market

We dug the potatoes and washed them yesterday, and this morning Gretchen just left with them for Valdosta Farm Days, Historic Courthouse Square, 100 West Central Avenue, Valdosta, GA:

Digging and washing:

Digging Washing

Potatoes and grits, plus rosemary, in the car for Valdosta Farm Days: Continue reading →

Auckland Museum, 11th day of the 11th hour of the 11th month 2005

Let these panels never be filled:

Let these panels never be filled

We happened to arrive at Auckland Museum at 11AM on the 11th of November. This is precisely the time everyone in the former Empire celebrates the end of World War I, Auckland Museum is a war museum, and 1/5 of all male New Zealanders served in that war: 100,000 of the, of whom 60,000 never came back. So the entire upper floor of the museum was taken over by a comemoration ceremony, involving many folks in uniforms and medals and a Maori in traditional dress marching with them. On the wall of names was an F.C. Quarterman. The records show about 20 others who served, and more than 200 Sinclairs. Let these panels never be filled.

Names:

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