Beautiful swimmer

This beautiful young swimmer was just a tadpole with a long tail. Then presto! Long legs. These are tiny frogs, maybe an inch and a half but they'll get to be big boys by the end of the summer.

Carp at Chanticleer

Everything is so perfect at Chanticleer! It's a big reminder of our own annual pond cleanup. Our little pond in the center of a formal garden where the frogs have already set up residence. The draining of the pond is always a big worry about disrupting their reproduction. I guess it's time for me to keep a serious garden journal. All the waterlilies need separating. They grow like crazy. A sunny day is necessary for this job—too chilly now to think of getting wet.

The Wisteria is in bloom

Bees are busy. The Wisteria drapes itself on a trellis on the front of our house and smells heavenly. Purple petals drip to form a carpet below and later velvety seed pods will hang like so many ornaments. Looking up they become lavendar wheels.

Huntress

I turned and suddenly a mysterious visitor posed just for the time it took to snap a picture. No doubt she was an actress in a previous life; accustomed to artfully arranging herself upon the stage. One breath and poof, she was gone!