A visit to the land of Magic. Magicman that is :o)

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

This is a good picture. Did you take your pocket and carve "Jeff was here" on it? 

[WDH]

Very cool tour.  I saw some cherrybark oak leaves sticking to the mud on the tire of the vehicle  :D. 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Very cool tour.  I saw some cherrybark oak leaves sticking to the mud on the tire of the vehicle  :D.

Uhhh, you're missing the point Danny.  :D This was a visit trip, not a show and tell for WDH.  ;D

[WDH]

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth  :D :D :D (old saying).

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth  :D :D :D (old saying).

You'er my goat horse of knowledge. 

[gfadvm]

What a wonderful place Magicman has! That cabin is where I would be living for sure. I really appreciate Jeff taking us all along on his trip to God's Country. The videos were excellent. And now I'm craving some gumbo.

THANKS Jeff.

[Sixacresand]

Glad you had a good time.  Lynn and Pat have a nice place and are great hosts.

[Jeff]

Uhhh, you're missing the point Danny.  :D This was a visit trip, not a show and tell for WDH.  ;D

Au contraire monsieur goat!



 

https://youtu.be/Fpp0qmgztCo

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

WDH, I may be wrong but I think Lynn and Jeff were hinting at a Walnut Project to be held on the Davis farm.

I believe I would drive to that one.

This was a really good video also.

[Jeff]

I'm not thinking that is the case. Too much would be going on harvest wise for a social gathering if things came together for what Magicman is thinking. I could be wrong.

[4x4American]

Looks like it was a good time!  Beautiful chunk of land, Lynn!  Say, Lynn, you mentioned something about hanging up your spurs, was that figuratively or actually?

[Peter Drouin]

Dose all that land flood from time to time?

[Weekend_Sawyer]

Very nice, thanks for taking us with you.
Magic Man I am amazed at the racks you have, well, racked up!

Jon

[WDH]

A plan is hatching.  There is going to be a walnut incident in Mississippi I hope .

That vine needs sawing too  :D. 

The leaf will tell us whether it is slippery elm (AKA red elm) or cedar elm.  Slippery elm leaf is twice the size of cedar elm.   Nice shot of the mock orange at the end, the green one with the thorns.  Good old Poncirus trifoliata. 

Very interesting ride, really enjoyed it. 

[Jeff]

I am enthralled with mock orange.

[Magicman]

Dose all that land flood from time to time?

That creek is "blessed" with a drainage area that is ~2 miles "square" so a huge amount of water passes through.  Yes, the bottom land and the bridge that we crossed will go up to ~2 feet under water.  Twice I have had poles and bridge decking to wash off before I could complete a rebuilding project.  That is also why I continually have trees to give way and fall.  The strange thing is that as the water swirls it deposits silt and tree seeds/nuts somewhere else and the cycle continues.  The creek doesn't get larger, but it is continually changing.


 
Here is a map of my place outlined in red and the yellow is my leased land.  The Cabin is in the extreme NE corner.  The "Straw Field" is the brown area in the center, and the "Back Forty" is the NW corner.  Most all of the "open" land is now Pine plantations.  The pin map on my profile shows a much later picture of how it actually is now and the food plots in the Straw Field and Back Forty are green instead of brown.

Jeff mentioned the North wind that we had to deal with while hunting.  The deer normally bed in the 150 acre block in the SE corner which makes hunting with a North wind a serious challenge at best.  We had one afternoon that things were finally working when a puff of wind sent them running with their tails up.  There was one day that we did not see a single deer, but I do not recall that it hampered our visiting and fellowship.  Heck, maybe that is why we did not see anything.   ;D

[Magicman]

Magic Man I am amazed at the racks you have, well, racked up! Jon

 
This was my last "season limit" in 1997 when I decided that one would be my future limit.


 


 


 
This board (from left to right) is mostly my "one per year" board since 1997.
 

 
Yup a few prior to 1996 and none of them are sheds.

This year has been very unusual with only one "good" buck and one cull taken.

[SwampDonkey]

I am enthralled with mock orange.

Mom's uncle and aunt had two clumps of it for years out on the front lawn near the road. Smells nice when in flower.

[Jeff]

Will it grow up here? You seem to be about the same latitude as us.


 

[Texas Ranger]

Jeff. a lot of the time the camera was on the ground, so were you looking down for snakes?   8)

[elk42]

     Jeff  it is good up to planting zone 5 . They are winter hardy to -10°   My family call them wild orange or flying dragon.     

[Texas Ranger]

Trifoliate orange show up unexpectedly, and plant a thorn in your head.

[SwampDonkey]

Ours is different Jeff. It's Philadephus in the Hydrangeaceae family. Not thorny.

[Magicman]

I would hate to see it spread to anywhere.  That stuff is nasty.

[WDH]

I have seen thickets of it in a bottomland in San Jacinto County Texas that you could barely walk through.

A lot of thorny stuff in Texas, including some of the people.  There is one old Texas Ranger there in Polk County that is pretty thorny  .  Cooks a mean steak, though  ;D.