“Pine-ing”
One-Word Wednesday: 8/16/23
Tag: Nature
T-Shirt Tuesday: “Savannah Wildlife T-Shirt Series” #8
Recently, when Robert and I drove over to the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, I fell in love with a series of very cool T-shirts featuring area animals and what we can learn from them. So I decided to feature one on each T-shirt Tuesday for a while.
Today, the Beautiful Bluebird.
May we join the bluebird in trying to keep a song in our hearts this Tuesday.
T-Shirt Tuesday: “Savannah Wildlife T-Shirt Series” #6
Recently, when Robert and I drove over to the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, I fell in love with a series of very cool T-shirts featuring area animals and what we can learn from them. So I decided to feature one on each T-shirt Tuesday for a while.
Today, the Beautiful Bluebird.
Yes, let’s take the Bluebird’s Advice — and spread a Little Happiness!
T-Shirt Tuesday: “Savannah Wildlife T-Shirt Series” #5
Recently, when Robert and I drove over to the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, I fell in love with a series of very cool T-shirts featuring area animals and what we can learn from them. So I decided to feature one on each T-shirt Tuesday for a while.
Today, the Delightfully Dazzling Dragonfly.
Up close and personal with a friendly dragonfly down in Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp south of us …
And coincidentally, yesterday Donna sent me a photo of a dragonfly she spotted on her car’s antenna …
With the dragonfly, may we appreciate this long summer day.
“Pine-Apple-ing”
So I walked into our bathroom, an hour or so ago, in order to, well you know.
I started to sit down and saw this …
“Wait, what’s going on?” I thought, as I leisurely, then worriedly gazed at the curtained window. “Is this my bathroom?! Where AM I?”
“Is that an alien just outside my bathroom window? Look at his/her TALL hair!”
Terrified, I was ready to squeal, to yell for HR (Husband Robert- you know that!) to come help me, when I decided that, “No, let’s pull back the curtain. Kind of like with the Wizard of Oz.”
And then I realized.
HR had just put the pineapple in the bathroom window to catch some sun and ripen a bit more.
But seriously, IN THE BATHROOM?!
T-Shirt Tuesday: “Savannah Wildlife T-Shirt Series” #4
Recently, when Robert and I drove over to the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, I fell in love with a series of very cool T-shirts featuring area animals and what we can learn from them. So I decided to feature one on each T-shirt Tuesday for a while.
Today, the Awesome Alligator.
Okay, TIB (Truth in Blogging): I respect this animal, but am ridiculously scared of him/her as well. The alligator is common in my area of the country. They are found primarily in freshwater swamps and marshes, as well as in rivers, lakes and smaller bodies of water. My older daughter and her family live over on Skidaway Island here in Savannah. Alligators often sun themselves on the banks of lagoons bordering houses.
My first grandson Daniel was just a little one when I would carry him or push him in the stroller on walkways near some of those lagoons. I would always get so very nervous when I would see an alligator stretching out in the sun. I would pick up my pace.
This is the only type I can tolerate …
And even with a baby alligator, I look a tad disheveled and out of mental control.
Here are a few of Robert’s pictures of alligators from our travels near us. I am posting them with my eyes closed. So I hope you are able to see them.
Actually, some of the alligator’s advice is pretty sage. Although I can’t remember any of it, and can’t force myself to scroll back up to read it. You do that for me, please.
One-Word Wednesday: 7/12/23
“Here”
T-Shirt Tuesday: “Savannah Wildlife T-Shirt Series” #3
Recently, when Robert and I drove over to the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, I fell in love with a series of very cool T-shirts featuring area animals and what we can learn from them. So I decided to feature one on each T-shirt Tuesday for a while.
Today … the Observant Owl.
A few of Robert’s owl photos …
Owl try to follow some of her advice. What about you?
Oh, and one last itsy bitsy owl also on Earth Day in Savannah …
Look Up!
So today, HR and I traversed twenty minutes to the Savannah Wildlife Refuge across the Savannah River from us over in South Carolina.
The purpose: For Robert to complete his homework for a course we are taking on Georgia’s Ossabaw Island and the concept of Wildness. We had to go to a Place, sit for a While, and observe the Wild, in whatever way we describe the word.
(I had already completed my assignment earlier this morning, meditating by the Savannah River itself, a couple of blocks from where we live in Savannah’s historic district …
… but more about that in a later post.)
(Now you have something to look forward to.)
Anyhoo, HR suggested we have a little picnic there, before his meditation, even though the temperature was supposed to be in the LOW 90s. Ever the accommodating spouse, after fussing a little bit, I agreed. Why? Curry chicken gyros – spicy! From Savannah’s iconic little Mediterranean Al Salaam Deli.
Oh my goodness! If I could, I would teleport a bite over to you.
It never takes a lot to grab my attention. But if you put a pine tree in the mix, I am FASCINATED. Years ago, after reading nature writer Janisse Ray’s Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (read it if you haven’t!), Robert and I fell in love with the Longleaf Pine.
So, before I even started to eat my curry gyro, I spotted some tall, majestic pine trees all around us.
And what did I do?
I looked up, of course, wondering if they were Longleaf. Wouldn’t you?
(I will never forgive Robert for taking that ridiculous picture of me, without me knowing he was doing so, but since it works for this blog post, I’m going to use it. Don’t tell him.)
Alas, the pine trees were not Longleaf. I suspected as much. The pine cones were too small and the trees, majestic as they were, did not have Longleaf’s candelabra-like upward branches. (TMI?)
Later on a solo hike (HR was “meditating.” remember), I saw this:
Loblolly somehow intuited that I preferred the Longleaf. He asked me why. Having no real answer, I did the only thing I thought to do. I looked up. Up into his Heights.
And he said …
Loblolly is now a close second in my favorite pine tree cataloging.
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