Eeeeeeeeeee!

We finally have toads in our pond! Toads are usually very shy — you seldom see them, and if they see or hear movement nearby, they stop singing and get very quiet until you go away — but these characters just went about their business like we weren’t even there. I actually had my lens less than a foot away from one of them, and it just sat still and let me take all the pictures I wanted.

We recorded some of the male’s trilling. I’ll try to upload it when I get a hand free.

Yaaaaaaayyy! Toads!

Emily

Monkey business

I made another sock monkey tonight. I wanted to give it to Jamie, but I ran into some problems as I was making it, and it didn’t come out quite the way I wanted. I have two more socks like these (I mixed and matched between two pairs), so I’ll just keep this one and make a sturdier, better constructed specimen for Jamie.

Despite its flaws, I still think it turned out pretty cute.

Here it is with my first monkey, a traditional Rockford Red Heel specimen.

In case you are wondering, Scout is no longer speaking to me. She did not like sharing her chair with that sock monkey one little bit. She looks awfully cute with the monkey’s arms around her, though….

Emily