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I tried so hard to sneak up on the spring pond full of mating frogs... i walked quietly and slowly from far away, trying to stop in between each step so I would not be noticed. The frogs were loudly making all their spring time mating calls, which is enough to make me feel warm inside already. From a distance I could see their heads above the water, floating on the surface and singing their love songs - at first it looked like turtles, the way they float with just their nose poking out the water, and these frogs are quite large.
But as soon as I got within 3-4 feet of the tiny pond, they one by one started darting down to the bottom.
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This brave one, was the last to go from their relaxed floating, to the unknowable abyss below.
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I then noticed right next to the lone ranger, was tadpole eggs already starting their process of life!!! How cool is that?
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Like abstract art, or really the mimic of how all life starts... beautiful dots just riding beneath the surface of the water.... I couldnt paint a cooler picture.
XoXo
2 comments:
I love the mating songs! On the Ledge a year ago almost ... we living with that ruckus music and it was an awesome time.
MOkihana!
I should have guessed... me and you love all things small, and all of nature's songs.
Do you have frogs where you are now? Where are you now?
xoxo
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