I pick it up on a hoe. Most snakes it’s more like raking them into the box with the hoe, but this one’s playing dead: Continue reading
Snake on a hoe
How I get the snake in the box:
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Peppers yellow, green, and red
Ready to make pepper jelly.
Picture by Gretchen Quarterman,
Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 August 2011.
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Caw!
Crow on a longleaf candle:
Update 10:00 23 August 2011: Gretchen says that’s not a crow; it’s a smaller bird; some sort of flycatcher.
Update 10:00 23 August 2011: Gretchen says that’s not a crow; it’s a smaller bird; some sort of flycatcher.
You lookin’ at me? Continue reading
Peppers, red and green
Tasty!
Picture by Gretchen Quarterman,
Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 29 July 2011.
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What’s that sound in the woods?
Very odd sounds.
Here’s video:
What’s that sound in the woods? Part 1 of 3:
that sound, in the woods,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 20 August 2011.
Videos by John S. Quarterman.
Some kind of cat, maybe?
Let’s get closer: Continue reading
Gopher across Coppage
Why did the gopher tortoise
cross the road?
Video by John S. Quarterman, Coppage Road, Lowndes County, Georgia, 18 August 2011.
To find a way through the fence.
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Dogs and Armadillo at 3AM
What are the dogs barking at at 3AM?
Oh, just an armadillo five feet outside their door.
Pictures of dogs and armadillo
by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 10 August 2011.
So what happened to it? Continue reading
Skeeterhawk guarding the okra patch
Who keeps an eye on the okra patch while Gretchen’s selling okra at
Downton Valdosta Farm Days?
Picture by John S. Quarterman at
Okra Paradise Farms,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 July 2011.
Skeeterhawk, that’s who! Eat them skeeters, skeeterhawk!
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Sweet potato gnocchi and pie
What do you do with a sweet potato as big as your head?
Cook it into gnocchi: Continue reading
Don’t tell Terry! (Sweet potatoes are ready)
“Look at that!”
We planted them back in March.
Here’s Part 1 of 3:
Sweet potato eruption! Part 1 of 3:
Digging Potatoes, Okra Paradise Farms (OPF),
Lowndes County, Georgia, 24 July 2011.
Videos by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms (OPF).
“Like an earthquake!”
When they get ready, they crack the ground.
Here’s Part 2 of 3: Continue reading