At least it wouldn't look like a body bag, eh? I apologize to people who've mesgd me, I am a busy beaver.
Well, busy bullfrog.
Tadpole?
Newt. Newt. Newts don't get very busy. I have seen them. They sit between round rocks and keep damp. It would be hard to sit between flat or cubic rocks, because that would just be "a rock." Not "rocks."
I have some very nice round river-rocks I got from the banks of the river in Portland, where they were going to develop the shore. And didn't care about the "actual" shore, which was the rocks. About five hundred stream rocks. I had them out for a display in the garden in some earlier decorating incarnation, and that's what they're for, looking at and playing with.
Right now tho, they're in big buckets under a laurel, keeping clean and grey and purple. And I discovered a few years ago, that if you lift them apart, there will be orange fleshy newts in there, amongst the moist and cool rocks. Then you need to be very very careful about not squishing them, because that would be "bad," and sad. Not very nice to lift apart their Boulders Hotel at Carefree and put it back together with the holes in the wrong places and hurt a soft newt. He's not going to get out of there if you trap his gooey legs under a rock. There is a GREAT deal of contrast between a super soft newt annd even a sedimentary rock. It might be The Most contrast in the universe, like a snowflake falling into a campfire. They crawl in there, work their way in there, way in there, while they're soft, but they're between the rocks. You could really hurt them. They don't run into lower holes very fast, they hold still, in the beginning. So you've made them this habitat, qithout knowing it, and you better catch them and put them somewhere safe, without tearing them, until you can put them back, or someplace new. Youre at fault, it's your housing project, they're just newts; so be nice to them. This, actually, is Newt Heaven you have made here. Didn't know, did you? Well, I guarantee we can go out there RIGHT NOW and find four newts. Five maybe. Maybe TEN. The buckets need holes in the bottom. And the overstory of evergreen laurel helps, really helps keep them damp and "fresh."
That might not be newts. That's true.
But I figure no one will really know what they are when we see them.
But they're something newty, all orange with back eyes, like gummi bears. They have neat feet, with bubble toes. Really beautiful. Nice on purple rocks.
In that same rock mission, we found a round rock, and a heart shaped rock. The round rock is ROUND. I am guessing within spherical, of three to five thousandths of an inch over 1.5 in diameter. People think it's artificial. Plastic. But it's like ivory, like the cue ball. Amazing. I've seen "nearly" round, but not Round. It must have been in a pocket, duh, but a very special pocket, of unique design, because most pocket rocks are NOT perfectly round. Something in the water flow through this pocket. Or number and type of companion rocks. One of my first dates with my spouse, I kind of made her haul rocks up from the river to my car. She couldn't carry very many in the pack. Still, I married her. She would care about the minding-their-own business newts, and that's why I like her. |
