Each contestant will have two attempts to get your vote for today’s best pic.

Miss Meadowhawk appears honored to be chosen.

Curtsy

Try not to stare all in one direction at the same time.

Dragonfly Eyes

Compound eyes are cute but that Frons on her face isn’t going to win her any beauty contests.

I’m going to presume the next contestant is a male. ‘He’ has the look of a long long married man. Tense, lips drawn in tight, eyes bulging, face turning green and ready to croak. Yep, that’s the look you get after 30 years when you marry Miss Right before learning her first name is Always.

Still Life with Frog

His lifestyle might look cool, clean and tranquil but he still eats bugs. I guess that’s expected since he grow up with pond scum.

Four Eyed Frog

Help is available if you can’t think of a comment.

Stare into the eyes and relax. Relax. Reach deep inside yourself and find your inner frog.

Ah jeeze, no one said to eat that fly

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…Fotogenic Frog Faces

Frog Ripples

Try not to think of frog flavored ice cream

Franky Fingers

Franky is no Prince. I finally figured out how to tell. A real Frog Prince will have opposable thumbs. Go ahead and keep kissing but at least check to make sure your prince is able to use silverware. Those formal dinners will get embarrassing when Mr. Charming starts eating off the guest’s plates with his tongue. And don’t even think about him passing the butter.

Snake Surprise

Holy Slithering Slinky Batman! I wasn’t the only one focusing in on that frog. Unfortunately I startled the garter snake and it took off ending the photo shoot as everyone else dove for cover. Darn nab it. I only got the one shot of the snake and cropped the above to get a better view.

This one is going to remain as my desktop background for a quite a while.

Frog Reflection

Don’t you just hate it when a tasty treat lands right on your nose?

Now that’s a lucky shot. I didn’t realize that fly was there. Here’s one reason I take photographs – too see what otherwise might as well be invisible to me.

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Don’t be afraid to ask. It’s easier than kissing a frog.

Or the good, the bad and the not so ugly. Down on the shore of the Grasse River some hanger-ons are still in good bloom.

Wild Cardinal Flowers are better than good. They define ‘RED’ and they don’t just display the color – they scream it. So intense is the red of these flowers a camera has a hard time capturing it.

Wild Cardinal Flower – Lobelia cardinalis

Purple Loosestrife on the other hand might be pretty but it’s such a noxious weed. Purple Loosestrife is probably known as the number 1 alien invader.

Lythrum salicaria

Looking at ‘wild’ places gives a false impression on just how invasive this plant is. In undisturbed places Purple Loosestrife has to fight just as hard as anything else to get a place in the sun. But disturb the soil and long dormant seeds just waiting for the right conditions will sprout in uncountable numbers. I’ve seen estimates that the seed will stay viable for over 100 years so I guess there’s no waiting it out.

I do yoink these out when I come across them along the river – no sense letting them go to seed. Sooner or later if we don’t the river is going to be lined with them.

And the not so ugly. With a kiss he might get even better looking.

Go ahead an put him on your desktop so you can sneak a kiss every time you boot up. If he doesn’t turn into a Prince you can always keep the one you caught.