Nature Central

Everything has turned green, which has been wonderful. With the green has come days filled with nature adventures. I am truly amazed at the end of each day, what beautiful and fascinating things we have encountered. This week alone has meant;

:: finding a nest of red bellied snakes, including some very tiny babies (a cool guide)

::listening to the very loud singing of the bull frogs in our pond, competing with equally loud tree frogs, whose calls can be listened to here

:: on our clothes line we found a few big black bugs, with long antennae, after looking in our bug book found out they are notable sawyers, we thought of a particular friend with the same name!!!!

:: have found too many giant water beetles for my liking in particular, and when they come out of the pond WOW are they fast!

:: watch Shai sing a large American toad twinkle twinkle little star, who stayed to listen

:: began identifying the wildflowers close by, filling corners of the house with mixed bouquets

:: caught some dragon fly and damsel fly larva- the former propels itself through the water by shooting water out of its back end, and both are quite aggressive, although the more of them means the less of the mosquitoes

editor's note: i can't believe i failed to describe the picture of ben. While climbing in our big tree, a tree frog landed on his head!!! I got a picture from the ground, if you look closely you can see it.