I have been moaning lately about how we no longer see as many frogs in our garden as we used to when we first moved in.  I’d been blaming global warming until the husb pointed out that when we first moved into this house we used to smoke (although our rule was to only smoke outside) so we used to spend a lot of time sitting outside just chatting quietly.  Consequently, we used to see lots of our froggy pals.  We gave up (smoking, not chatting) before we had children and started spending less time outside, especially in the cooler evenings.  Nowadays, the time that we spend outside is quite a lot noisier than it used to be.

I was thrilled to see this little creature in our pond today (we were eating lunch outside so I suppose we were sitting fairly quietly).  I was almost as pleased at how well this picture came out – I used zoom and macro and managed to keep the camera still enough!