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Sycamore
This sycamore was growing in a firebreak, so we transplanted it:
Weeded: Continue reading
Elsie Quarterman Cedar Glade Festival
Dr. Elsie Quarterman, Vanderbilt Professor of Plant Ecology Emerita,
with students and some grand-students:
This is Elsie’s 100th year: Continue reading
Wood duck boxes:
Here’s a nice cypress: Continue reading
Sarracenia flava
A common yet peculiar kind of pitcher plant:
They grow in bunches: Continue reading
Egrets in Trees
South Georgia, or Pandora?
What lives there? Continue reading
Pitcher Plants
Growing in the swamp:
Gretchen, can you use the long lens? Continue reading
Grand Bay Channels
Channels in the swamp in the afternoon:
Sunbeams: Continue reading
Draining a Beaver Pond
We like beavers; they keep the water in our 12 acre pond.
But they’re getting a little too ambitious.
They’ve build another dam upstream, and they’re gnawing down trees.
So we decided to put a pipe through their dam to fool them
(this idea owed to David Fields).
This is an ordinary 4 inch perforated drain pipe, bought at North Lowndes Hardware. It needs to go through that dam I’m standing on. How do you do that? First remove a bunch of sticks (gloves are useful for this): Continue reading
Gretchen and Paige on WCTV about Quarterman Road
So we were riding our bicycles today, and Gretchen got a phone call from Carolyn saying WCTV (Channel 6, Tallahassee/Thomasville) was at her house and wanted an interview, but she was at work and couldn’t do it. Gretchen rode down there, and this is the result: Slowing Down Speeders, by Deneige Broom:
Quarterman Road in Hahira was paved within the last year.How did WCTV hear about this? They saw our neighbor Carolyn on YouTube: Continue readingSome people who live there say people drive faster than the posted 35 miles per hour limit.
The Georgia Department of Transportation says this type of paving is safe for up to 45 miles per hour.
Lowndes County agreed to lower the speed limit to 35 miles per hour after they heard concerns from residents.
Since GDOT says the 45 mile per hour is acceptable, a posted speed limit of 35 can’t be enforced without approval.
Residents just want something done.
“We had drag racers out here a few weeks ago, two corvettes speed racing side by side up and down the road,” said Gretchen Quarterman who lives on the road. “It’s a neighborhood, we have 30 families that live on this road, they have small children.”