Here’s a nice cypress: Continue reading
Wood duck boxes:
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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
Line Tree
The three marks indicate a property line:
Some smilax and grape vines: Continue reading
Candling Longleaf
In case you wondered why the growing bud on a longleaf pine is called a candle:
This nine foot loblolly is about 3 years old, as you can see since John S. Quarterman can reach 8 feet high and it’s a foot higher than that: Continue reading
The superb magnolia
It’s towering, all right:
“DURING a progress of near seventy miles, through this high forest, there constantly presented to view on one hand or the other, spacious groves of this fine flowering tree [the dogwood], which must, in the spring season, when covered with blosoms present a most pleasing scene; when at the same time a variety of other sweet shrubs display their beauty, adorned in their gay apparel, as the Halesia, Stewartia, Æsculus pavia, Æsc. alba, Æsc. Florid. ramis divaricatis, thyrsis grandis, flosculis expansis incarnatis, Azalea, &c. intangled with garlands of Bignonea crucigera, Big. radicans, Big. sempervirens, Glycine frutescens, Lonicera sempervirens, &c. and at the same time the superb Magnolia grandiflora, standing in front of the dark groves, towering far above the common level.”Picture of John S. Quarterman in front of a magnolia by Gretchen Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 19 Dec 2006.
—William Bartram, 1773
Overactive Beavers
This is what we’re trying to prevent by draining some beaver ponds:
Trees gnawed down by beavers.
Here Gretchen pans around the pond: 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