A Few Things From The Past Few Days

[poliphilo]

My mother turned 90 yesterday. We've been staying with her since Thursday. Now we're back home.

I was digging potatoes in my mother's vegetable garden and I dug up a little golden-brown frog. 

Or it may have been a toad. 

Frogs have webbed feet and toads don't. Or is it the other way round?

Sunday evening I was reading Tarot cards with my daughter. I was happy to find I could still do it- and with a pack I'd never used before. She read for me and I read for her. 

On the way home Ailz and I agreed that if the rain stopped (and at first it didn't look as if it would) we'd pull off the M25 and visit Stoke Poges- where Thomas Gray wrote his Elegy in a Country Churchyard.  Thomas Gray loved his mother and had himself described on the tomb they share as the only one of her children who "had the misfortune" to outlive her. The brick of the tomb is covered with the scratchings of 18th and 19th century poetry lovers.

Comments

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

Frongs are slim and smooth and toads are broad and knobbly. We get toads in our garden from time to time.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

This was probably a frog then.

[sovay]

These each feel like small illustrations. This one—

I was digging potatoes in my mother's vegetable garden and I dug up a little golden-brown frog.

—like something medieval, as if toads really generated spontaneously from the earth.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It was surprising. I suppose the earth was loose from earlier digging and the frog had clawed its way in.

[chochiyo-sama.livejournal.com]

A toad in the garden is good luck!

So what did the cards foretell?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

The cards foretold more of the same.... which is` fine :)

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

I've heard a similar frog story from several people recently - and mostly people who aren't all that close to water - perhaps they bury themselves to get moist? I wonder how far they travel from the tadpole home?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

This one must have travelled a fair distance. There's no pond on my mother's land.

[(Anonymous)]

Lovely days! And there is water on her land - a spring in the garden and water flowing in a stream in the field.
Jenny x

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There is, isn't there! But do frogs breed in running water?