Salvaged Concrete Slab Walkway Reduex

 

 Still a work in progress. Waiting on those relatively cool spells and lite mosquito time. Not asking

too much.

Tads Day - Forty-6 - #53rd Liftoff

Number 56 tad being photo bombed by Number 57 in the blur.

Practicing it's hang-ten or should I say hang-six outside the water.

Getting better at this but will have a change of mind and head back into the drink.

Gaining it's confidence back with some underwater hang-six.

Look Ma no tail, just a stubby.

Just chillin at the top.

Freedom, in broad daylight even. Which light do I stare into?

Number 57 now has the place all it's own. Now lets get going on developing them legs.

Tads Day Forty-Three -The 52th Freedom Jumper

In Thursday's morning light, scoping out the lay of the land, taking it all in with whatever senses frogs 

might have.

Be amazed little one!

Nah...I'll just sit here and chill. Nice!

 

To my best at accounting of tadpoles. There are fityseven total tads. One 

tad went down the kitchen drain. Looking back, as many water changes at the sink,

this could have been prevented by using a strainer in the sink's drain to prevent

this over enthusiastic tadpole mimicking a trout jumping a sluice on my

pouring the tads from their vessel into a net. While three froglets were found floating

dead in the water, of those, two were skeletonize, cannibalistic opportunist!

Recent Plantings Update

 

This Jackfruit tree, one of three is the finest and well what with the limited sun exposure

in my yard.              (this double spacing is annoying )

Of the three, this the only one with the tripled lobe leaves. While the other to trees

are just single. These were all started from seed, which could have bearing. Time,

as always ,will tell.

 

 

This Elderberry wilding is taking well to potted culture since it was dug up from my

other neighbor's yard. It even has a companion Bald Cypress seedling volunteer 

sprout keeping it company. 

I have nine mature Bald Cypress that I've planted on my property and they

produce plenty of cones and the squirrels aren't complaining. I could count

the volunteer seedlings on one hand in their twenty plus years life span.  So

this rare find could only be a good thing, maybe not for the seedling though.

This Elderberry specimen will test my form over function plant sensibility.

In one word, weedy is how I would describe it.

Their blossoms are legendary and is the main reason for my having this in my landscape.

This flower cutting was taken a couple weeks ago and it is a late season bloom that had

it's first bloom at the beginning of March.

  

Once again, time will tell if I even have enough sun to make this plant bloom.

If I only had a time machine.

Last weeks observation was worth another peek. To my surprise what I thought

might have been an aborted pup is not only green and vibrant but there are now

three pups instead of three at this Clivia's base.

 

 

Bouya!

Tads Day - Forty-One - Party of Two

Didn't think that these two greenies shouldn't have to wait any longer for their release to 

the great urban outdoors.

 

 

There's no mistaking these for twins, says the red-eyed frog to the ambered eyed one. You're

almost pickle green to I must be getting hungry. Hungry for the great outdoors.

Under the cover of early morning, next to the stately potted Afrocarpus. Home to one other said 

frog gets two more.

Now who's greener?

One of these looked for a short bit to as if it was going to get this far.

I had it in ICU for a day with it's buddy.

The one that has accomplished it's hang ten while the dizzy one is splayed out on the ground

with the least effort. Before arriving here it was spin swimming as if it's GPS or inner gyroscope

was on the blink. I didn't this was a fitting ending for a frog in a Talenti container so I scupped

it up and placed it back into it's container high up top the rock. Where it and it's mate chilled 

through the transformation with flying green colors as shown above.

The ambered eyed one with all the distinct aberrations might have been one of the several tiny 

tads that were  part of this school of tads and that brings our total of Fifty-Three and three

more to go where one froglet as already scaled the mighty wall of glass.

One, the climber, also known as Fifty-fifth.

 

Two and three or the one showing to the right will be the Fifty-sixth and the tail to the left

will be the Fifty-seventh, if all goes well.

Tall Aralia Gets Some Needed Bracing

 

 

 

Neighbor gave me some Curly Willow sticks that came in handy for bracing this tall

Aralia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tads Day Thirty-Seven - Release Party of Five Plus One

 This party will bring the total of forty-six frogs off to a jumping start in life.

We had another tad death, which makes it three and I don't think I was including

them in my total count. An Accountant I am not and this release fell on around

the 7th of August.

First I would like to introduce Bendy the beautiful mermaid tad. First one in the

world that made up this last party. Close your eyes, because it's a stunner. Slowly

open your eyes, less you go blind by it's beauty.

I know, right?

Front end says this way and the back end has other plans and look at those curves. Hey, it got this

far with no problems.

 

 

Look  you all, no curves, as it mourns, it's uniqueness. 

 

 

Another night release and entirely new location, side of house next to drive way.

 

 

 

Wow, and you guys thought climbing a sliver of concrete was fun.

Sometimes little hoppers need a helping hand. Notice the begonia leaves, they are from my

graduating class of plant props. So these frogs from the graduating class of fast tracked

home school.

This one was so happy it peed on it's self.

 Which brings me to the Plus one.  I thought all six had been released and to only find out

that this wee one hopped back on board. As I sat their container on the counter for a rince

and wipe down I spied this guy but it was on the wrong side of the glass, as in on the 

outside of the glass. I immediately grab it gently and walked out the back door to be 

re-released, hence the Plus One by it's lonesome, next to this beautiful potted Afrocarpus

 and that leaves me with five remaining tadpoles, or pollywogs as we would call them when

first introduced to these wee ones, when I was a wee one.

Fresh digs and if you look to the right you will see the next candidate in making that fateful climb.

Or so I thought at the time.