Tag Archives: River

Twenty one species in a thousand feet down the Not-a-Driveway from piney woods through seepage slope to beaver pond.

Plus Canis familiaris and garden variety human. While we did not see any beaver, Castor canadensis, there was quite a bit of evidence of them.

Species identifications are by Seek by iNaturalist, which is usually pretty reliable. I do doubt a few of them.

For example, what seek identifies as Pineland hibiscus, Hibiscus aculeatus, sure looks to me like halberd-leaf rosemallow, Hibiscus laevis.

Far more species than these live in our subtropical paradise. These are just the plants (and fungi) I happened to focus on today.

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Ten-angled pipewort or bog button, Eriocaulon decangulare, 2025:06:15 09:52:26

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Above us only sky 2025-06-05

But Sky Dog is not in the picture.

Above us only sky

River, Honeybun, Blondie, Gretchen, Lucky Peggy’s north field, and the sky

Sky was behind me, on the golf cart.

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River and her buried armadillo 2025-05-23

She covers them up after she catches them.

River and her buried armadillo

And she grumbles if any other dog comes near.

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Howling dogs 2025-05-19

Sky and River howled like something horrible was happening.

Movie: Sky and River howling (30M)

Actually, they saw me walk into the woods towards the garden, and they heard me calling them.

Blondie ran back to get them, and explained to them how silly they sounded.

Video:
https://youtu.be/Jyljdi-sHQk

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Gretchen and River in the garden 2025-04-24

River is Gretchen’s shadow.

Gretchen

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Wild azaleas and blueberries 2025-03-20

Down the Not A Driveway, over and under the Hurricane Helene deadfalls, following the dog pack, lies an acre of wild azaleas, plus wild blueberries.

Blondie, Honeybun, Sky, River, over the deadfall into the wild azaleas

Some of these Rhododendron canescens are already blooming. Many more are just budding.

Wild azaleas, pine deadfall, and dog on Not A Driveway

Wild azaleas and loblolly pine cones

Closeup red wild azaleas

Wild Blueberries

Pink wild azaleas

Pale wild azaleas

Wild azalea beneath oak deadfall

Closeup wild azalea beneath oak deadfall

“Here Spring was already busy about them: fronds pierced moss and mould, … small ﬂowers were opening in the turf, birds were singing. Ithilien, the garden of Gondor now desolate kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness.”
—Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit, The Two Towers, JRR Tolkien

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