Sally’s Frogs

000_2280Sometimes in life we are privileged enough to meet a beautiful person.    A person who lives life beautifully, who is so fertile that everything around them blooms and grows and reproduces.  Music follows them and people and animals flock to them.   Sally is such a person.000_2282

I received an email from Sally, via the Frog Doctor, because she had so many tadpoles and she wanted to share her bounty with others.  It just so happened that I had received two emails the previous day from people who wanted tadpoles for their backyard ponds.  I call it serendipity.

000_2295I wanted to check out Sally’s pond and bag myself some taddies so Sally invited me over for a look see.  What I found was a wonderland!  A lush, green paradise home to many, many fat froggies and their offspring.  000_2049

Sally dipped a jug into her pond and came up with a swirling mass of wriggling black bodies, again and again.  She lifted a shade cloth concealing one end of her pond and frogs jumped this way and that for cover.  We looked at another pond under her balcony and observed the circular dance of thousands around the pond edge.

As we lingered visitors came and went through Sally’s home, jovial and friendly.  What a comforting magnet her place must be, not only for friends and family but for wildlife as well.000_2008

Thank you Sally, for your generosity and your beauty.

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  1. Francesca Meehan says:

    Wow. Sally’s one of my sisters and everything you say is wonderfully true – she is a gem and I am blessed to have her as my sister!
    Francesca Meehan.

  2. Lizzie Burt November 15, 2009 says:

    I’ve got goose bumps reading and viewing this lovely article – it so describes my beautiful sister and her environs!

    Lizzie Burt

  3. Paula Bowles says:

    Love your stories of frogs and tadpoles. I gave away about a couple of hundred of the precious things to people in Kalgoorlie hope they have the success that you and I have had in breeding them. I am now reaping the rewards and seeing baby frogs in my garden.

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