Frogs and Lettuce

We had a few specks of rain here this week - not a lot, but enough to wet the ground. The result was a chorus of frog calls that night, which was a pleasure to hear. The next morning a tiny toad-like creature hopped out of my composting area. I quickly captured it (not with my bare hands, of course) because I thought it looked like a juvenile cane toad.

After lengthy comparisons to online pictures and descriptions of various frogs and toads, I am certain it wasn't a cane toad, and *think* it may have been either a Dusky Toadlet or Smooth Toadlet. So the little fellow was released back into the compost to croak another night.

Meanwhile, the lettuces I planted some weeks ago have been supplying us with daily leaves for our sandwiches. I never used to buy lettuce but now we're growing our own, we seem to use it every day.