Out for a walk.
Two kayaks, Pond
Tag Archives: Yellow Dog
Icy Pond 2018-01-03
Snowmaggeddon
was a good day to stay off the roads,
so I took a kayak on our pond.
Saw buzzards, heard some ducks and probably a beaver.
Lots of plants looking very strange.
Icy boats, Put-in
Ice on pond, Put-in
Clear spot under log, Put-in
Frozen, Put-in
Movie: Ice breaker (18M), Starting out
Ice, clear, snow, The pond
Snow behind, The pond
Ice floe, The pond
Two ice, The pond
More ice ahead, The pond
Ice on top, Floating bottom
Various plants, Floating bottom
Tree limbs, Floating bottom
Snow drift, Floating bottom
Frozen, Floating bottom
Siberia, Floating bottom
Detail, Floating bottom
Grass, Floating bottom
Heron tree, Floating bottom
Lily pads, Floating bottom
Slant tree, East Shore
Mistletoe, East Shore
Ice mistletoe, East Shore
Slant to mistletoe, East Shore
Spanish moss, Center
Water colors, Center
Ice and fluff, Center
Ice tuft water, Center
Floating bottom edge, Center
Lily and bladderwort, Center
Lily pads, Center
Near and far, Center
Old dam, Beaver houses
Movie: Wind and ice (16M), Beaver houses
Video
Beaver mansions, Beaver houses
Closer, Beaver houses
Closeup, Beaver houses
Lily with ice, Between dams
Movie: Icy beaver dam (20M), Between dams
Video
More ice below, Between dams
Along the beaver dam, Between dams
Sky, Between dams
Shiny ice, Between dams
Shiny shore, Between dams
Ripples, Catface
Paddle and shore, Catface
Shore, Catface
Way out, Turn back
Lily ice, Turn back
Lily, Turn back
Ice, Turn back
Reflecting, Big beaver house
With banana boat for scale, Big beaver house
East slope, Big beaver house
Top, Big beaver house
Point with paddle, Yellow jessamine
Two flowers, Yellow jessamine
Beaver house, jessamine, Yellow jessamine
Lily pads, East shore
Ice, East shore
Ice encroaching on lily pads, East shore
Ice pad closeup, East shore
Across the ice, West shore
Cypress, Northwards
Cypress portrait, Northwards
Far shore, Northwards
Video
playlist.
-jsq
Focus on Food, Conference in Waycross, GA 2018-03-17
Our friends in Waycross will be having a conference in March.
Nothing this year in Lowndes.
Focus On Food (2nd Annual Homestead Guild Conference),
hosted by Way Green Grassroots Homestead Guild.
When:
Saturday, March 17 at 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Where:
“More info coming soon!”
What:
“Growing, raising, cooking, preserving and using food! Workshops will be announced soon. Vendor space will also be available. Mark your calendars!”
For more information, contact our friends at WayGreen in Waycross
Gretchen
Snow and Ice 2018-01-03
I did eventually break the ice for the dogs, but then they said the water was too cold.
Lots of odd stuff during Snowmageddon.
Snake of the day 2017-12-22
Dog, Mushrooms
The bog garden and the Brown Dog, August 2017
Start with floating bottom in a pond…
Gretchen picking some bog from the floating bottom
The bog she picked
Mighty Mule gate opener closer
The old part was missing something.
Can you spot it?
My compliments to Mighty Mule support for diagnosing this problem
immediately on the telephone after I’d tried numerous other ways to fix it.
-jsq
Five weeks of a banana tree
Gretchen got a dozen or so sticks of banana trees.
Here’s one that happens to be
in front of a camera.
That’s today, and here’s
a video from 29 June 2017 to 6 August 2017: Continue reading
Solar meter running backwards 2017-05-12
If my electric utility paid me as much as I pay them for electricity,
I’d be making a profit from my solar panels.
As it is, I profit anyway by paying a lot less, the panels are paid for,
and I get to watch
the electric meter galloping backwards on a sunny day:
The little bars are moving to the left below the numbers, which means I’m selling solar power to the power company.
And that’s with only about Continue reading