August 22, 2010
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what we found in the garden….
wilson was “pruning” our “Mano de tigre” (“Tiger’s hand” a particularly monstrous type of Monstera)
- actually hacking away at it with a machete –
…for it is a fast growing greedy creature,
and in the wet season (now) rapidly expands to take up all the front garden
and tries to make it’s way into our veranda too…when amongst the chopped off leaves there appeared what he thought was a brightly-colored plastic toy
but really it was
after we got to have a good look at it – and my camera with the good macro lens turned out to have a flat battery
– so I had to make to do with the less good one -arrggh! isn’t that always the way?
can you say cute?
this photo – a perfect composition! – but the face out of focus! boohoo!!
it made its way back into the moist middle of the tree…
we think it must be a female, it was about 7 cm long, looked full grown and healthy.
we marvel that it lives there in the front garden – whilst it *is* very wet, there is no puddle or stream for it to lay eggs in
we are at least 300 metres from a stream, and that includes crossing the international highwaywe thought about relocating it to what we would think a happier clime
but the frog itself seems perfectly happy and healthy right where it was, so we left it there.
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they are quite common apparently and not in much danger of extinction, at least in the near future -
but still a little creature to make one’s heart happy
that there are many things wrong with the world,
but there are still frogs like this!
Comments (8)
it sure is a beautiful froggy. Thanks for sharing your find
What an amazing looking frog. I can’t wait to show these pictures to Emily when she gets home this evening!
cool pix, cool critter! when i took the grands to the zoo in Detroit, they had a butterfly house that had a bunch of butterflies and their chrysalis from Costa Rica – they were cool too! peace, Al
Shame about the camera, but what a great looking frog. Dad the reincarnate looking for Costa Rican real estate maybe?
Fantastic shots! He seems not to be camera shy.
I have been viewing Chris’ many photos and vids of his trip and Costa Rica is so beautiful. He had a little green frog among other critters in his room when on the white water rafting camp out. He had the adventure of a life with all the fantastic places and things he experienced. His Costa Rica Madre and family made him feel very welcomed.
K
@madfuj -
maybe that was the spirit of dad making me take a blurry shot in memorium of him too =)
@knightingale -
i am so pleased. costa rica is such a wonderful place, and the people really are lovely. =)
What an amazing creature! Thanks for sharing.