Sunday, July 20, 2014

Olé, Olé, Olé

July 13, 2014
Athens, GA

These past weeks have been too hot for any photo trips and instead have been marked mainly by work, pool time and World Cup Soccer. Here is Tessa getting fired up for the final Germany-Argentina. Go Germany!

P.S. We won!

Fog Dog

May 11, 2014
Sandy Creek Park, GA

The entire park was shrouded in some thick fog today!

Beware of Horses

May 3, 2014
Barnesville, GA

To paraphrase the great Victor Hugo "I don't mind what Tessa does, as long as she doesn't do it in the street and scare the horses."

Friday, July 18, 2014

Onion Fields!


April 28, 2014
Toombs County, GA

Home of the famous Vidalia onion which are being harvested this time of year. Coming to a store near you, soon!

The Vidalia onions are grown on 14,000 acres in 20 counties around Vidalia, GA and owe their sweet taste to the low-sulfur soil and climate of the region. To preserve their mild taste, the use of sulfur fertilizers are kept to a minimum.

Vidalia onion seeds are planted in September in starter fields, and after eight weeks are pulled and transplanted in the production fields - by hand. Most of the onions are also still harvested by hand.

At harvest time (April/May), when the onions start to fall over, they are undercut - again by hand - and left to dry out. They are then collected, sorted, graded, packaged, and thanks to modern storage technology, can be sold through December. 

Each acre produces 300 50-lbs bags of onions. That's a lot of onions. 75,000, I think.



Daisy, GA


April 28, 2014
Daisy, GA

The end of a 4-day trip to the coast - return home via rural Georgia, and a revisit to Daisy, GA, a small railroad town in Evans County.

The Coast Guard


April 27, 2014
Savannah, GA

Tessa's got our back.

Tabby

April 27, 2014
Savannah, GA

This was taken at the North Pier at Fort Pulaski. We always walk the many trails around the Fort, a real treat. In the back you can see the Savannah River. This is a good spot to watch the big cargo ships come and go. 

Decisions, Decisions...


April 25, 2014
Savannah, GA

The blue one? Or maybe the blue one?



Behaving well at the Cerbone residence on Wilmington Island.

Shells, Shells, Shells!


April 25, 2014
Savannah, GA 



The Return of Green

April 15, 2014
Sandy Creek Park, GA

On this day, it was very cold, with an icy wind, the last of a long winter that was unusually cold for Georgia. But at least the green is back, and the warmth would soon descend.

Onions!

March 27, 2014
Sandy Creek Park, GA

Flower Power

March 23, 2014
Athens, GA

Spring!

Birds Of A Feather Flock Together

March 22, 2014
Sandy Creek Park, GA

From left to right: Tessa, Dewi, Greta, Rhys. Tessa and the Setters run together every weekend and sometimes in-between, and hunt together over the winter. Greta was visiting from Michigan.

Tessa & Greta


March 22, 2014
Sandy Creek Park, GA

For a few months this spring, we added a new playmate to our gang - Greta, a German Shorthaired Pointer and accomplished grouse and pheasant hunter from Michigan. Her owners like to spend the winters in Georgia, and were grateful for the opportunity to run Greta with our dogs. 

Isn't she gorgeous?

Tessa In The Briar Patch

March 14, 2014
Eatonton, GA

Road trip to Eatonton, GA, home of Joel Chandler Harris and his Br'er Rabbit tales.