I've been reading up on past O linemen players lately. Bob Johnson obviously comes to mind, and I remember watching Trey Smith and Juwuan James. Antone Davis is up there for sure.
Who all do folks have on their starting 5 all time? Give me some good names to hunt down.
Always enjoy spending time on this creek.
Honestly I’m not even sure it’s a fungus. My first thought was a kind of stinkhorn variety?
The size of a blueberry. Found in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. NC, Swain County.
ID help appreciated.
Hard to beat this classic.
My buddy dropped these rounds off last year after a tree job. We both hunt mushrooms, and he said they pulled oysters off this dead maple he cut down and saved from the chipper.
I set them down near our low ditch area under a big beech, and they have flushed way more than I expected! We keep eating them and they just keep popping back up after each rain. All these rains in the southeast have made it a good summer season this year.
Someone said Earl Brothers are "Gothic" and possibly AI generated?
Figured I'd post a song by them and let their music speak for themselves. Been around for a while and their songs get played pretty regularly on the morning bluegrass sets on radios in East TN and WNC.
I forget how good this song is until I hear it again.
Little rain, fun gorge I’d not got to fish before.
Head of the local GOP threatening sitting representatives to never support anyone but their party. Classic Party over all here.
Knox County Republican Party Chair Martin Daniel:
Good morning Republican Knox County Commissioners:First, thank you for serving our Knox County, Tennessee. Recently, post-primary Election Day, it has come to my attention via hearsay and rumors that one or more of our Republican Commissioners may be considering advocating for the election of a Democrat county commission candidate. I hope those rumors are just that – rumors – and are not actual fact. Such an endorsement would be a mistake by the person giving it. In any event, I remind you that I and the current Party Executive Committee were elected in part to ensure party unity. Towards that objective, per my duty as Chairman, I respectfully advise you that if any Republican Knox County Commissioner publicly endorses or otherwise publicly advocates for the election of a Democrat candidate for any Knox County elected office, I will personally move to publicly censure that Commissioner. Additionally, I am confident that said endorsing Commissioner's political life with the Knox Republican Party would be at an end, at least for the foreseeable future. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Also, got to love this quote by Andy Fox, who I believe is almost saying there are no room for moderates, and only hard right wingers are real republicans now?
Andy Fox: Advocating for the election of a Democrat is classic action by RINOs who think Republican support for Republican candidates only goes one way– when a "moderate " Republican wins and expects the conservative base to support the moderate. "Moderate" Republicans, if indeed they're actually Republicans and not Democrats using the party as ballot access because they couldn't be elected as Democrats, don't think they should support conservatives. Just look at my race where a so-called Republican, Victor Ashe, openly supported a radical leftist instead of me.
Always enjoy this creek. Nothing of much size, but the creek side sedges isn’t something I see that often and in this quantity.
I did a post a couple months back concerning a controlled burn I did to restore an old pasture. Folks asked for updates! He's what it looks like today.
The original post is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/NativePlantGardening/comments/1rnibkl/burned_and_seeded_4_acres_over_this_last_week/
This is year two of the process for this old field. It had been bush hogged on and off for a few years, and was horse pasture prior to that.
Last year we let it grow and did no mowing except on our walking path. This let everything get up high and create enough fuel to eventually burn. We then burned last couple days of February this winter.
I seeded with Roundstone's Quail Mix + some Big Bluestem. Unfortunately, this year is an especially dry spring (6+ inches down) so I'm not sure how my germination rate has gone. I've seen a few partridge peas here and there, but its near impossible to identify any of the grasses at this stage. Fingers still crossed!
So far it is a success. I can see how I'd like to improve the process on the next field, and there is plenty of invasives mixed in here. Honeysuckle Vine is all over, Japanese Stiltgrass will have to be sprayed, and plenty of the fescues remain. I've spot sprayed some Bradford Pear too.
I'm seeing more birds already! I believe I have two or three pairs of nesting indigo buntings, among others. I'm looking forward to seeing everything continue to change across the year!
Found this Instagram of a guy hitchhiking throughout the region, stopping at museums, attractions, and locally famous spots across Appalachia. It appears he’s a local who just decided he wanted to see the rest of the region.
https://www.instagram.com/stateofappalachia?igsh=cnJzajI5dDJqY3g2
Thought folks here might enjoy the follow as much as I am. Already seen some familiar spots, and a bunch new to me.
Not sure how nerdy folks want to get, but this is a fascinating presentation on a study on forest response to different management styles, including fire. It shows the results to overall forest structure over time. It is of SE mountain forests in North Carolina.
Enjoy!