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lighter:
The moss is layers thick with all this rain. So happy.
There are many young woodpeckers flying around, pecking on my bedroom window, landing on the porch, sitting in bushes and trees.... all around. I hope they go somewhere else to make homes.
The hummingbirds are very active. Since I put up red lanterns, around the porch, they spend time contemplating them, up close, where I tend to the tadpoles. I guess they wonder if they're full of nectar, as is the red feeder. There's 3 of them zooming around, maybe fighting, often sitting in the Hemlocks, flitting back and forth to the feeder. It's very special.
I have tadpoles turning into little green jewel box tree frogs.... they're just tree frogs, but they remind me of jewel boxes, bc they're metallic green..... just breathtakingly green, and I do love green. I KNEW they were green tree frogs! There's about to be 100 or more little green tree frogs making their way out of containers over the next few days. I have to figure out how to keep 5 or so alive till my niece and her bf arrive.
I have moss and plants to deal with. Gutters need cleaning badly. The trimmer and blower have work to do too.
I'm really enjoying my yard right now.
Lighter
lighter:
Niece's bf is here again. Today he helped me with weed eating and made an amazingly happy discovery.... FROGS.
Big frogs. Not toads. Not tree frogs. Ground frogs... so cool and sleek and striped and spotted.... just very jumpy and fast and they;re living around the cut tree.... just all over the place, and in the drain.
The tadpoles are fast turning into little green treefrogs... under an inch long. SO TINY and so green..... an amazing green.
The white tadpole is one of the last to develop. All her container mates have their front arms. Can't wait to see what she looks like when she changes.
I moved moss around today.... the truth is I have moss I haven't dealt with in weeks. I've kept it alive and happy, but it's loaded on sleds, waiting for new places. There are decisions to be made... I'm just not ready to make them, but I will be.
I also have plants to get into the ground, and I figure I'll get more help from the boy. Or not. We're having fun stomping around in the creek. Baby girl pug went with us yesterday. She was so happy and running in the creek.. like a puppy again. I think the chiropractor is really helping.
We have lots of salamanders and crawfish in containers to observe. So cool to feed.
I still have to find a place to put the pond plants I have. Someplace I can harvest from, should the frogs gift me with more tadpoles next year: )
Lighter
Twoapenny:
That sounds so lovely, Lighter. Frogs are just the cutest little things, especially when tiny babies! So nice to think of them hopping around near you :) xx
lighter:
Tupp:
I have lots of tiny adult tree frogs in a very tall glass enclosure with tall sticks and lots of moss and ferns at the bottom. There are 2 Southern Leopard frogs sitting in their water dishes as we speak. I LOVE them too. They speak of the farm and cut grass and galvanized metal watering cans in my childhood.
We have salamanders... not the bright orange ones we had before, but beautiful brown and light tan orange ones. Crawfish.... tiny tiny to over 2 inches in length.
Caterpillars.... ,
And the light tadpole is the last of her tank mates to metamorphosis.... she doesn't have her front legs yet. I think almost every tadpole is changed and in the trees.... except for the 6 or so we're observing. I saw just a few tadpoles in the larger tanks.... there must have been a large number leave in one night, bc there's usually many swimming around in the 3 large containers, but nope.
Letting all these critters go is a no brainer, except when it comes to the light tadpole. Her chances of survival in the wild aren't good, bc of her lack of pigmentation. I don't know what to do about that. I'd like someone, who loves frogs and cares for them, to HAVE her to keep safe and happy with tank mates. That's not my in my wheelhouse. I'll see if I can find someone who already keeps tree frogs. Hmmmm.
The humidity here is thick. If it's not raining, it's misting. The moss is very happy about that. I can't believe how thick it's gotten. It's inchest thick in areas it was super thin...... just very lush and amazing to walk in. I wish I had a good routine of doing early morning yoga in it. Maybe in the fall months.
We used to do martial arts workouts, barefoot, in the snow. I don't mind the cold as much as the heat and bugs. I'm having a hard time picturing winter yoga outdoors.... just can't picture it.
How is your garden doing, Tupp?
Lighter
Twoapenny:
Oh my days, barefoot in the snow, my little English feet are cringing at the thought :) I'm such a woss about things like that - barefoot's supposed to be very good for you but I only get my socks off when it's very warm and I don't like squelching or squooshing under my feet. As soon as the temperature drops my chunky socks and slippers are very firmly on and that's where they stay :) Lol.
I've done nothing with my garden to be honest, the initial enthusiasm left me very quickly and I feel quite reluctant to do much to it as I'm hoping we won't be here too much longer. It does look pretty out the front, just with my big fuscia bush stretching out one side of the path and the crab apple tree opposite arching over the top. It looks nice as you walk up to it from the bus stop. The only plan I have been thinking about for the front is socially distanced trick or treating - assuming we can do it at all, I thought I could put a table out the front with the sweets in individual bags, light it all up with pumpkins and lamps and then the kids can still get the treats and show us their costumes without anyone touching anything. We'll have to see nearer the time.
I hope you can get someone to look after the little tadpole! It sounds so nice watching them all grow and change like that xx
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