Pond life, including the amazing new game show, SPOT THE FROGS!

[valis2]

To cheer myself up, here are some of my favorite new pond pics--pictures of Pond Life! Which is sort of like Thug Life, but wet. And kind of froggy.

Also, poor quality pictures of dragonflies for little_tristan. I wish they were better, hon, I'm sorry.

So the water level receded a little during late summer, and one morning I was looking out across the pond and I noticed what looked like a cannonball sitting on a little plug of land. I pulled out the binoculars, and was excited when I realized that it was a big turtle! Please forgive the poor quality of the photos--I had to use the telephoto lens and stuff and it was kind of a pain.


Seriously, this turtle is about a foot across. Later, I consulted the internet, and realized that it was a Blanding's turtle. Very exciting. I've seen red eared sliders/painted turtles, but never one of these, and it was pretty cool.


Amusingly enough, another turtle tried climbing on him while I was photographing. At one point, he kind of went, "HOLY COW I'M CLIMBING ON A TURTLE" and fell in. It was amusing. Well, to me. Then again, my humor age is about five years old.






And the other turtle behind him is like, "Bwuh? What just happened?"


Turtles in the water!




HOMG FROG!


HOMG ANOTHER FROG!


And now, step right up and play spot the frog! How many frogs are in this pic? C'mon, just guess. The answer will be posted on Friday. Winners will receive...uh...I have no idea. Virtual hugs, most likely.


This bird lives in a tree across the pond (the one next to the bushes, right at the edge of the pond) and occasionally wanders around on the "beach." Anybody know what kind of bird it is?


Dragonflies for L_T. Sadly, they look so much more vivid in person.




BUMBLEDY BEES!!




Water beetles. Tons of them!


DUDE. GIANT TADPOLES. Srsly.


These are my two grasshopper pals, who sat in my flowers all late summer long. Each day when I'd go out to water, they'd hop like mad, staying abreast of the spray. Okay, fine, they're not pond life, but they are kind of cool. Except when they chew on my hibiscus plant.

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[idleleaves.livejournal.com]

EE, TURTLES. AND FROGS. AND LITTLE HOPPY THINGS. And dragonflies. *___* I adore them but they scare me a little IRL.

Lovely photos. <3 Am still hopelessly envious of your pond.

Also, I read the title of your entry as "porn life" the first time. Heh.

[idleleaves.livejournal.com]

Also, I see four frogs. I may be insane.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I love little hoppy things! These pics were so much fun to take, seriously.

And these dragonflies are the little, regular-sized ones. You would not BELIEVE the huge cruisers we had, too. Like, four times the size of a regular dragonfly. They were crazy big.

And noted: guess for 4 frogs. :)