Where Are My Teeth?

Scare the frog

As it turns out, the tadpoles in our little pond are much bigger than the tadpoles in the stream down in the park. (The ones in the park's frogpond are bigger yet, but they've got the advantage of souther exposure and a good couple hundred feet lower altitude. The flowers bloom earlier down there too.) I think it might be all the mosquito larvae and billowing waterweed -- last yeat the pond was cleaner, we put in organic mosquito toxin, and the tadpoles were tiny.

But those little fellas down in the stream have something ours don't: a guardian, er, something. Get too close and there's a splish that sends everything diving for cover in the bottom mud.

Posted by wallich at June 11, 2003 12:04 AM