Longleaf Pines

So neat, and so tragic. I MUST go see some of the remaining 0.01% of old growth left...

Pawley's Island

Saturday:












Sunday:

On an afternoon bike ride...

I saw some interesting things last week.

First off I went to my favorite spot to pick wild muscadines (native grapes) just off of the PATH near Candler Park and Paidea School. While there I found this interested grape with a dead insect inside of it.



Truly dying happy


Can you imagine dying while consuming a sweet delicacy that's 10 times your own size? That would kind of rule.


Further down the road I saw a tree company removing a GIANT tuliptree from someone's front yard. I was able to snap a few quick pix. The size of the trunk pieces was really impressive




I think I counted about 120 rings from this photo


Neat bike ride.

A [bountiful] harvest... sort of

Finally we got some awesome tomatoes. And another nice cuke. What a harvest!







It's muscadine season again! These native grapes came from the vines I've let establish on our front white picket fence.

On the vine


the harvest (probably double last year's!)


a gift of various yard flowers and garden fruit to our friends



Up next... the HUGE tomato harvest!