43 #tomatoes in. Bring the rain. Didn’t have the energy to tackle the #peppers. Maybe Wednesday between rainy days. The #fennel is the best looking I’ve ever grown. #BokChoy is bolting. 2/3 of the #broccoli starts have croaked. But, speaking of croaking, I encountered two adorable wee #toads that made me glad I was there. ❤️ Bless their warty little souls! Sorry no pix because gloves and chicken poo fertilizer and just hot and tired. #gardening#OrganicGardening#GrowYourOwn#SeedToTable
Coming off a stressful weekend where I worked and worked and stayed up late, did not get outside at ALL. And now I'm entering a packed Monday where I also have multiple large deadlines.
So it was CRUCIAL to at least get in a hike, after dropping off my son at school.
I used to think it was a strange kind of cicada or grasshopper - but it turned out the relatively high-pitched and steady trills we hear in late spring are the mating calls of American Toads (Anaxyrus americanus). #Toads#Amphibians#Herps
This is one of my all-time favourite #documentaries. It has a bit of a cult following. Was it done weirdly on purpose, or by accident? Serious and hilarious at the same time. Get out the popcorn!
Cane #toads An Unnatural History.
Only first spotted in 2011, the flea toad (Brachycephalus pulex) is now confirmed as the smallest frog AND overall vertebrate species in the world (found so far). The males are around 7.1 millimeters and females are 8.15 millimeters 🤯🐸
They put Toadomination on Xbox! And for cheap!! Fans of roguelikes and/or twin stick shooters, do NOT sleep on this one. It's a BLAST- I played it some on Steam. Didn't think the day would come I'd see it on consoles! Another one I've wanted to try for a while, Cavity Busters, is now in the Microsoft store too.
Discovering other amazing looking roguelikes, too - The Lost and the Wicked, Replikator, Undergrave, The Excrawlers, Remedium: Sentinels, and Soul Shifter all look wild as hell.
New roguelikes ftw! (Now I gotta check the Nintendo eshop for all of these.)
Not what I went out into the garden to photograph, but since the dragonflies were playing hard to get 🐲🪰🤷♂️, this young common toad (Bufo bufo) gets the spotlight instead 🐸
And not the ideal set-up for a one-hand-held shot with a heavy DSLR either, but the toad was in a hurry to get into the undergrowth, so it is what is it 🙂