Fergus in Full Throat

The Mystery of how such a tiny and elusive frog can make so much noise at night has been solved. By shining my phone flashlight into the pond at night, it is possible to catch some in the act. There were several swimming around in the pond but only Fergus was puffed up like a balloon with some kind of bladder at his throat. I don't know the mechanics of this but I'm sure it is what allows the amplification of the croaking which goes on all night. It's not a very crisp shot as fergus is under the water and he is hardly a flower, but Im tagging him for Tiny Tuesday anyway....

It's no wonder the losing-my-purse-phone dream comes as the latest in a line of anxiety dreams. There were the high school ones where I am naked in the hallways, the college one where I can't find the room the final is being given in, and I never went to the class anyway, or the yoga teacher's dream where I'm teaching a large class, often outside, and nobody is paying any attention to me. Thanks to Kathy1947 for hosting this month.

 It sometimes seems like everything  one needs to exist is somewhere on the phone, from recipes, to the answers to random questions about things one can't remember, to concrete items like a calculator or a flashlight. Not to mention 25,000 photographs, a huge contact list (we used to call it an address book) and a calendar. The funny thing is, I rarely use it as a phone.

It has been raining quite steadily all day with some strong wind gusts, but I think the brunt of the storm and particularly the strong winds were south of us. Falling trees and power outages are the biggest worry. A report on climate change in the paper this morning said that  we must act drastically now to avoid catastrophic change. This is a message we've heard over and over, and small steps are being taken, but with a power company that is so taxed already that it can't even bring new homes and businesses online for months, it is hard to imagine how we are going to reach total independence from fossil fuel use by 2050. There seems to be a huge disconnect between mandated electrical usage and the affordable infrastructure to support it.