#tadpoles

[markscherz]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Tadpole season in the northern hemisphere! These common toad tadpoles, Bufo bufo, are travelling in schools in a local pond, eating all the detritus they can find.

[nymla]

Tadpole pools. 🌿🐸 Stoneware ceramics.

A trinket or jewelry dish. It is also technically food safe - so I'm thinking.. sushi plate? 😋

I'm not a painter but I suspect it's not optimal as a paint palette since the pools aren't white. But whatever is put on it, the toad will be guarding it.

This one is available in my shop at nymla.se/shop💚

[dark-scape]

Happy belated Father's Day to my favorite fathers in the animal kingdom: poison dart frogs! Because look at them carrying their kiddos on their backs. So cute!

Male poison dart frogs carry their young to different water sources to increase the chance that some of them survive.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[imstillalexcomic]

Something I want to clarify first is that elements of transitioning that are easy for me are not easy for everyone; the very fact that I have meds available at all is a blessing and not everyone is so fortunate.

I’m hoping and wishing and fighting for everyone to get the care they need.

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I’m not sure if this was something that happens in pre-schools everywhere or maybe it’s a regional thing, but my wife also had “tadpole day” so to speak growing up in the same state as me. 

Apparently the tadpole visitation made such an impact on me that I remember it over thirty years later.  They’re cool!  They go through big changes!  They become frogs!

…ok so I’m not going to become an amphibian, but I like to think I’m doing the tadpoles proud.

[worrywyrms]

tadpoles

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #FrogFriday 🐸: one of the coolest netsuke I’ve ever seen!

“a highly inventive depiction of the complete life-cycle of frogs” Netsuke, Japan, late 19th c. Ivory, W 4.2cm (1 5/8in)