Pensive

This guy found a perfect perch today, until a pushy mallard came along. To see

Bully & the Bullfrog: the MOVIE, click HERE.

Chippy Spa

This chipmunk is from SCOOT! Greenwillow Books, 2008.

Silly me....I thought I had created a bird bath!

These guys are cute, but they're sneaky little varmits, too. Spotted one

with a freshly-dug turtle egg in it's mouth last week.

Reflection

Memorial Day, 2010.

Flitter, flutter, scamper, scoot!

Frog on far left, a pair of Mallards, and two Eastern Painted Turtles. I didn't even ask them to pose!

First time seeing a Green Heron at the pond

One of THREE turtles laying eggs at the same time yesterday! All were about 10 feet apart.

Such a wise looking fellow...

It's been a busy week at Frog Song Pond. Here are some of the inhabitants. For more, click

HERE. Then go outside and play.

New Views

Although I love living in Maine, it's good to go somewhere else once in awhile to get a new perspective. Last week we hitched up the wagon train and set out for the "wild" west. Here's my first time at the Grand Canyon---truly an incredible place. Looks like torn paper, don't you think?

Wolcott Wizards

I spent two great days this week at Roger Wolcott Early Childhood Center in Windsor, Connecticut. Lynne Markwell, the Early Literacy Specialist, kindly invites me to visit all of their terrific kindergarten students every year. Greeting me in the hall was this wall of wonderful word wizards--successful young readers! Aren't they cute?

Word Wizard information HERE.

Tortugas!

Quite a chorus line on the log at Frog Song Pond today. Well....a silent chorus line, anyway.

Maybe basking line is a better description. More photos on my other blog, HERE.

These two wanted to be alone, however....

I recently heard that Turtle Splash! will be out next year in a Spanish edition. Muy bueno!

Craig Reinauer, a preservice elementary teacher studying education at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland, adapted Turtle Splash! to create a stop-motion animated video for his class project. Check it out HERE---quite charming!