"Go East", they said...: Fun with Nature #25 - Watch where you put your hand!

Dear Friend;

Come along, make haste and join us in our adventures while living "In The East".

We are living in the east, geographically speaking, after a sudden work transfer beckoned us almost across the entire country, splitting our family in half with grown children/grandchildren remaining behind on the west coast.

We moved into our new home April/06 but never knew it would be God's providence to endure another move for work and positioning for a future medical situation. We moved again amidst 4 feet of snow in mid Dec/08.

We hope to continue sharing our pioneering moments with our family and friends back home, creating an environment for tenderly passing along the new memories we'll be making over here in the east, those that will stand the test of time in both thought and deed.

Sprinkling some ambiance into the mix will be a fully loaded and most positive outlook while we're on this adventure and new challenge together.

Please join us while we journey onward. Feel free to email me with your comments, questions or ideas. We welcome you here.

Sursum Corda!
Renee

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Fun with Nature #25 - Watch where you put your hand!

(Fun with nature take along guide)

Our back deck stair handrail has been really great for hanging on to, specially when we hoist things up and down from deck to back garden.

It came as a complete surprise one day last month when I went to grab this same railing, and to my utter surprise, get a load of what was resting there. This guy was no doubt trying to camouflage himself. Ha, whoa, I almost placed my entire hand right over him! He was big too. Yikes!

Out came our nature guides, and try as we might, we still haven't fully been able to identify him!

He's a strange one, not really falling into any category we've read about thus far. WE thought sure he was a toad, but alas, he looks more like a "gray treefrog", as in the photo below taken from our "fun with nature" guide.

Imagine that! Not a toad, rather a tree frog? Of course one can tell from the book that's a tree frog, but not at all when viewing the live version on my stair railing. Wow! Who would've thought...