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08DEC2023 – Photo of the Day
Orion's Cold Fire
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
The Frog by Robert Frost
Be kind and tender to the Frog,
And do not call him names,
As “Slimy skin,” or “Polly-wog,”
Or likewise “Ugly James,”
Or “Gap-a-grin,” or “Toad-gone-wrong,”
Or “Bill Bandy-knees”:
The Frog is justly sensitive
To epithets like these.
No animal will more repay
A treatment kind and fair;
At least so lonely people say
Who keep a frog (and, by the way,
They are extremely rare).
Mac, my corner of Dunwich is an amphibian’s delight. Between frogs, toads and salamanders I’m ankle deep in the varmints. But I will confess I rescued one of my favorite toads from a garter snake a couple of years ago. He lived in a cinder block near the pen where Camera Girl walks the dogs at night and the snake had extracted him from his lair and was trying to swallow him head first. Common sense should have let nature take its course but this toad had become a fixture that summer so I intervened. Guess I’m sentimental.