Summer pond

We made a short visit to a pond behind a shopping plaza this morning. Compared to winter time, the pond has shrunk significantly, but is still full of life--ducks diving in, dragonflies dancing, and crickets chirping. The dragonflies are  the length of my little finger, with the most beautiful blue, sort of the electric blue. I cannot take a picture because they never stay still.

While walking by the shore, loudly Daniel announced his finding:"Frog!!". Yes, a tiny little frog was resting at the edge of the water. When Daniel moved closer, the frog jumped into the water to swim away. Daniel caught it so we can get a closer look. See how tiny they are. Also see how similar the frog's color and the sand color is? They have the perfect camouflage. Growing up as a city girl, I was almost as excited as the kids were.

Oh, we did release them back to the pond after our observation.