{"id":7267,"date":"2011-06-26T08:42:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T13:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=7267"},"modified":"2011-06-26T08:42:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T13:42:38","slug":"snapshot-kissing-toads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110626-7267.htm","title":{"rendered":"Snapshot: Kissing Toads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something was moving along my peripheral vision as I mowed the stretch beside the garage. Was it a mouse? I wondered.<\/p>\n

I stopped mowing (easy to do with an old-fashioned mower where you don’t have to worry about stopping and starting a mower) and investigated further.<\/p>\n

Silly me. That was no mouse. That was clearly a toad hopping along.<\/p>\n

\"Toad\"<\/p>\n

Why did I decide to leave my camera inside? <\/p>\n

Oh right, because I almost lost my lens cap the last time I tried the “mow with a camera around my neck” routine.<\/p>\n

Still, it was clearly a poor decision.<\/p>\n

I repented my camera-leaving sin and returned, certain that the toad would be gone.<\/p>\n

I was wrong.<\/p>\n

I took shot after shot, struggling to focus on the toad amidst the bramble of weeds and hailed-out daffodils. <\/p>\n

\"Toad\"<\/p>\n

Mr. Toad mustn’t have liked my flash, because he hopped right out to where the lighting was more agreeable.<\/p>\n

He posed happily against the garage for several shots, before coming out into the center of the patio to sunbathe a bit.<\/p>\n

\"Toad\"<\/p>\n

I was broken from my toad-fancying reverie by the whir of a boat on the lake.<\/p>\n

What a sight I must have been to the boaters! Tush in the air, head to the ground, abandoned lawnmower in the yard.<\/p>\n

But I got some good pictures of the princely toad.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, he isn’t likely to be in my age range.<\/p>\n

\"Toad\"<\/p>\n

**The life expectancy of the American toad (according to this source<\/a>) is around 5-10 years. Definitely too young for me. **<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something was moving along my peripheral vision as I mowed the stretch beside the garage. Was it a mouse? I wondered. I stopped mowing (easy to do with an old-fashioned mower where you don’t have to worry about stopping and starting a mower) and investigated further. Silly me. That was no mouse. That was clearly … Read more Snapshot: Kissing Toads<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}