Weekly Photo Challenge: Textured

As I was going through my pictures to choose something for the “textured” theme,
I realized that each of these was photographed on a brick wall.
The brick-and-mortar background itself is a good example of “textured,”
so it was easy to narrow down my selection to the following five:
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DRAGONFLY

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ANOLE

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CICADA SHELL

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FROG

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SNAIL SHELL

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Thank y’all for stopping by to visit Little Things.
May your life be filled with little blessings, little chuckles,
and little deeds of kindness (both given and received).

In our journey through life, we’ve all had rough patches in our background.
If we strive to make the best of them,
then the texture of our lives can be as strikingly beautiful as the creatures pictured above!
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Froggie Frolics

These pictures are for my little friend Stacey, who is studying frogs in school this week.

If any of you wish, you may download these photos for educational or other non-commercial purposes.

We have a pretty good “crop” of tree frogs in our back yard.
Much of the time, they prefer our back porch to the trees.
I’m glad, because that way we can get a closer look at them!

I must admit that I do NOT like them nearly as much
when they get past the open door and into the house.
They’re very friendly neighbors and aren’t harmful in the least,
but I just really don’t like anything in the house
that moves as fast and unexpectedly as they do!

If you’ve ever had one indoors, you know how fast and F-A-R they can leap –
for instance, from the counter top all the way across the kitchen and onto the stove top(!)
“PLOP!!!”

FYI –
If you ever have one in the house that you’d like to ‘invite back to the outdoors,’
I have a tried and true method of catchin’ him!!
Find a plastic bowl or some other lightweight container that you can easily turn upside down over the frog;
then slide a manila file folder or some other thin, stiff paper product under the edge of the container;
hold everything together tightly…
and take outdoors to release the frog back into his home territory!

Whew!!
I can almost feel the relief as I write this suggestion right now!
I know it sounds silly, because I’m not at all afraid of the little creatures outside –
and my husband always says they’re MUCH more afraid of me than I am of them!

Here are some more photos of froggie OUTside the house(!)
In the first three, he’s sunning himself on an irrigation pipe.
(Credits to my husband for taking these three. )

The discs on tree frogs’ finger and toe tips are tiny little sticky-pads!
 

In this snapshot, he’s climbing out of the shade of a black flower-pot.

In this last one, he was climbing up the brick wall by the back door.
I reached as high as I could, held the camera against the brick above him – and clicked several times.
When I looked at the pictures, I was amazed to see this one that turned out really clear when enlarged!

“Here’s lookin’ at you, little green friend!”

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