{"id":31954,"date":"2022-05-29T23:43:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T03:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=31954"},"modified":"2022-05-29T23:43:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T03:43:36","slug":"not-bright-but-cute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/05\/not-bright-but-cute\/","title":{"rendered":"Not bright, but cute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was out in the backyard doing gardening today, because I know how to rock a holiday weekend, and noticed one of the green treefrogs (<em>Hyla cinerea<\/em>) tucked <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/05\/routine-patrol\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">under the wing<\/a> of the decorative heron near the hosta plants. This is quite common anymore and I just routinely check, then leave them be<strong>;<\/strong> it&#8217;s apparently a nice hidey-hole for the day. Though when I noticed, the afternoon sun was at the right angle to shine directly into the space and illuminate the frog brightly, which I didn&#8217;t imagine was ideal, but I also knew within half an hour the sun would move on and the frog would be shaded again.<\/p>\n<p>A little later, I glanced at the hosta flowers and had to call The Girlfriend down to see.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/HostaBud.jpg\" alt=\"green treefrog Hyla cinerea sheltering on hosta flower\" width=\"750\" height=\"1125\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31955\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>The frog either didn&#8217;t believe the sun would move on or didn&#8217;t want to wait, and took this little perch for the minimal shade that it provided. Which is amusing, because the hosta has leaves that could shelter a small pony like, <em>right there<\/em>, but okay. Not judging.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes later, the sun had gone behind a cloud momentarily, and I took advantage of the better contrast conditions for the spooning portrait.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/HostaToehold.jpg\" alt=\"green treefrog Hyla cinerea on hosta flower\" width=\"750\" height=\"1125\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31956\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Eventually, probably prompted by our constant activity nearby, the frog did finally go down below to the leaves, even though by this time the heron spot was shaded again. I&#8217;ve already tried patiently explaining that, for instance, the greenhouse is a really bad place to take shelter within during the hot days, and the treefrogs routinely ignore me (I remove at least two a week,) so I didn&#8217;t waste my time suggesting that the frog could return to its original spot. They&#8217;re like teenagers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out in the backyard doing gardening today, because I know how to rock a holiday weekend, and noticed one of the green treefrogs (Hyla cinerea) tucked under the wing of the decorative heron near the hosta plants. This is quite common anymore and I just routinely check, then leave them be; it&#8217;s apparently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[2505,5481,2506],"class_list":["post-31954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-green-treefrog","tag-hosta","tag-hyla-cinerea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}