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These tiny green tree frogs are only about one inch long. I pulled the cover off of a barbecue grill and these little guys shot out hopping and jumping everywhere. Scared the be-jabbers out of me, but not so much as to prevent this macro from being taken.
gray treefrog - their mating cycle is just starting. This one was quite tame. Let me get close and even move it to a better backdrop.
watercolor, acrylic, oil pastel, colored pencil, ink, tissue paper on paper
24in. x 18in.
spring 2010
Here in the South we have what are called tree frogs. They are tiny, have suction cups on their toes and live in the woods where they sing very, very loudly all night long. This summer we have had a pair of them living under our back porch, one on either side. During what I assume was mating season, they spent two weeks just locating each other and conducting intensive prenuptual negotiations that drowned out any possibility of human conversation on the porch.
We named them Fred and Ethel. Not too long afterwards they got into the habit of climbing up the kitchen window at night and peering in at us peering out at them.