i am sorry to report that one of my front waterfall frogs, probably the big guy, bud, has croaked...his last croak it appears. i had never seen bud, but found his body this afternoon lying in the rocks next to the water. he appeared to have been either squished or bitten...there was a small bit of gut action going on...
bud will be missed. i have been impressed by his tenor voice and his ability to predict the rain. his compadres, weise and er, are small frogs. weise lives under the shutter next to my front porch swing and has been seen once. he is amazingly small, as is er. er was up on the front porch last summer and i took pictures of him. i could not believe his minature size! er is always the last to chime in.
i couldn't just let bud rot in the sun, nor could i bring myself to bury a frog, no matter how soothing his voice has been. so i carried him over to the shade below one of my dogwood trees and threw him there, to become one with the mulch. i don't think the rabbits are much interested in eating him, although he was a rather long, slinky frog.
there are tadpoles in the pond, so he has certainly left behind a legacy...
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