Back for a Third Year!

If you look on the brown stick just inside the pond you will see a leopard frog that is turning into a tadpole. (Click on the picture and it will enlarge letting you see a better view of him). This picture was taken last year. This guy stayed through the winter and in the last couple of day's emerged from a long winter's nap. It is so cool to walk out to the pond and have him dive under when he sees me coming.

The Northern Leopard Frog is the first of its kind to emerge after winter. It hibernates under the water. It can take in oxygen through its skin! If you are reading this carefully then you are saying, "Wait this guy was a tadpole last year and you said you have had him for three years." I put him in as a tadpole in the summer of 2005. He chose to remain a tadpole that year and hibernated as one. They can do that if they desire. Isn't that amazing?! (source: http://northern.edu/natsource/AMPHIB1/Northe1.htm)

Brother Hazard told me once, "It is a wonderful world God has created." I certainly agree. Like the hymn says, "Summer and winter and springtime and harvest, sun moon and stars in their courses above join with all nature in manifold witness to Thy Great Faithfulness, Mercy and Love! Great is Thy faithfulness, Great is Thy Faithfulness, Morning by Morning new mercies I see. All I have needed Thy Hand hath provided. Great is Thy faithfulness, LORD unto me!"