Toad Says “Hello”

A while back, I wrote about catching a fleeting glimpse of a boreal toad on the Power Point. I mentioned that I’d tried to get a photo of it (see A New Toad Sighting). Not long after that post published, the toad came to us!

On a pleasant, sunny day, all three of us worked outside. We each pursued our own projects, but they all happened to center near the new garden beds we’re establishing in the dooryard near the veranda. Michelle weeded the flower beds in that area, while I hauled firewood, and Aly worked on an art project on the veranda.

Western (boreal) toad in our new garden bed (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

Western (boreal) toad in our new garden bed (Photo: Sarah A. Zeiger).

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Coffee Yin-Yang

I’m not big on Asian philosophy at all, but I do recognize that from it we glean a lot of short hand terms for universal human concepts, truths and values. I’m thinking right now of the concept of Yin-Yang.

Yin-Yang speaks of the value of opposite forces in combination, cooperation and dynamic tension for proper balance: light-dark, motion-rest, work-play, life-death, man-woman, husband-wife.*

On our 32nd wedding anniversary Thursday, Michelle found me a perfect Yin to balance one of my favorite Yangs: my coffee mug.

(Photo: Mark A. Zeiger.)

(Photo: Mark A. Zeiger.)

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