Have been spending the last couple of days in the garden getting some much needed work done. It was nice out yesterday, warm but not hot, and sunny with a cool breeze. After we finished prepping the ground and laying out sod, I noticed this little guy sitting on some flower leaves under one of the cherry trees. They’ve been  everywhere lately, on anything green or wet and shady. Perhaps it’s some wierd fetish of mine or something, but I think they’re just  about the cutest little creatures.

Last spring, when I had a friend over, we were out on the deck late into the evening, finishing off a nice sake, when one of these little green guys came up from under the deck to go after the bugs attracted to the deck lights. He would wander around a bit getting the lay of the land, then one by one, he’d focus on a single bug, stalk it, and pounce. Never missed one. We sat there and watched him for almost an hour, fascinated. He spent half the time vertical, on the sliding glass door, pouncing in all directions, and never fell (him, not us).

Anyway, here’s a picture of the frog, a volunteer flower in the walk path, and some of the bees having a good time with the lavender.