It is Thursday

Morning here - my half-naked barefooted child is running around in the backyard rearranging my houseplants which have been moved to the warm sunny outdoors. I'm listening for the washer to unlock - hang this load up & get another one in. No dryer for 10 days now. Hope the power bill reflects this. Also, with the warm weather - have had windows open & shut OFF the thermostat. The weather is beautiful here - perfectly warm with a slight breeze - just enough that the 'airplanes' on the spiderplant are swaying...

Sunny Tuesday

My sister, Beth, visited last week during her Spring Break - we got outside quite a bit, & even got a short canoe trip in - here, reading the Very Busy Spider to Levi after breakfast:

During our canoe trip I ran across a new marsh plant (new to me) that appears to be 'flowering' - it's got a slender stalk with a knobby yellow tip - I haven't ID'ed it yet... - anybody know this one?

We spent most of Sunday afternoon over at Fort Stewart - here's my obsessive husband hanging out the window checking out the turkey tracks - we even had to stop so he could scuff out tracks that crossed a main road, just 'in case' another obsessive turkey hunter came by...

On my birthday - before going out for the evening

Mo turns 31!

It's a FULL MOON & my BIRTHDAY - what could be better!?!... A babysitter & sushi for supper! :)

Feb pics

Just looking thru the Feb pic file today & found a few of interest...

In Cairo, Ga visiting Papa a few weekends ago & we went to a recent find in Grady County - a 15 acre colony of trout lilies - the largest know this far south - a rare find in this part of the state. There were blooming trilliums (above) found in the area as well.

acres of trout lilies

Back at Papa's house - his pineapple guava bush had ripe berries - I did a little search on these & didn't find a scientific match. Anyways, I picked enough berries for a batch of jam - and probably ate just as many!

Last weekend we went to Atlanta for a wedding - and stayed with my Grandma Huckins in Kennesaw. We left in a hurry on Sunday morning - trying to avoid the oncoming snow storm - but ended up driving thru hours of it anyways.

The last month

February was a good, busy month. Molly thought I should post some of the stuff we've been doing so here goes the next 3 posts. This one is a prescribed burn we did just northwest of Ft. Stewart. We burned some longleaf sandhill as well as one of the most diverse bogs in the state. Fire maintains and rejuvenates the bog as well as the sandhill. The bog has 5 species of pitcher plants and 3 species of native orchids. Mo and I are going back in April when they are blooming.

Lighting the first backfire...

Tired at the end of the day.

Sunset over the burn

The Altamaha

We needed to do some work along the Altamaha. The best way to reach the majority of it was by water.

For scale, that's me way down at the left base of the tree below.

I love this one....there are camps spaced along the river in random places. To get this thing in here, they strapped it to big pieces of foam and floated it down the river. It's still sitting on huge pieces of styrofoam. Folks will come up river and stay for weeks in these hunting and fishing. Looks good to me, one heck of a nice porch.
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An oxbow connected to the river....

An old Cypress log...

Eagle nest surveys....

We flew these along the coast last week. They are flown at about 2oo ft of elevation....dodging towers and buzzards and lots of turns. We found quite a few nests. I've never gotten airsick but the first day I came mighty, mighty close. Still can't get the Top Gun theme outta my head...long live Kenny Loggins ;-)

Near Brunswick

Tight fit!!

Busy last few days - an out of town weekend wedding & a full day's drive back thru a snow storm today. Exhausted tonight. Tons of pics to look thru!

Sister Carrie announced her pregnancy over the weekend - Woohoo!!! Yipee!! Levi will have a first cousin close in age. I'm so happy for her & Greg. An Oct baby expected.