Or yellowish in the case of my new garden friend:
I almost stepped on this little guy this morning. I was outside in the garden checking on my plants — it’s really hot here right now and I wanted to make sure they were doing OK. Our irrigation system ran this morning so at least everything got watered, but 94 degrees at 11 a.m. is still 94 degrees.
Thank goodness I looked down before I stepped around that last plant pot, because I could have squashed the little frog and then I would have felt so shitty! But he’s pretty fast on his little legs so he probably would have hopped out of the way just in time. Once I noticed him, he did a bunch of hopping around the garden — first into one of my raised beds, then immediately out again, then behind another plant pot.
I ran inside to grab my phone so I could take a few photos. Here he is getting reading to hop somewhere else:
And he’s quick — I never saw him actually hop! I wanted to get a good action shot, but he just kept outsmarting me. It’s like he knew that he had a picture-taking paparazzi following…
He got really comfortable in the plant pot — I guess with this heat, that might just be the best place to be! I wonder if he will still be there tomorrow…are they nocturnal? Or will he sleep there tonight? I just have so many frog-related questions now…
Notes from a Self Quarantine 