Caught on camera together at last! So were there three frogs all along? Or did the one I took down to the creek on Friday have an incredible journey home?

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I wish you could see him leap at the blind and snag those moths one after another. It's beautiful.

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• In this phase, the quarter-moon
  rises at midnight and sets at noon.
  
  
• [T]his is the time in the lunar cycle when it is easiest to let go, cut back, and release things. We may even find that once we know what it is all about, the illusions dwindle and fall away of their own accord.
  
  
• Negative emotions, diseases, ailments, and bad habits can all be let go and special spells for clearing can be performed at this time.
  
  
• [W]hen the onset of the rut coincides with the full moon, the peak period of the rut will occur one week later, during the moon's third quarter. The Verdict: The first third-quarter moon after the Hunter's Moon can provide the best hunting of the year.
  
  
• From the third quarter moon until the New Moon is called the fourth quarter decreasing. Not a good time to plant but an excellent time for garden cleanup. It's said that weeds pulled during the fourth quarter won't come back. This is a good time to mow lawns to slow their growth.
  
  
• [Y]ou have no doubt noticed that the third quarter moon has a much larger area of maria covering its surface. Almost two thirds of the visible surface of thethird quarter moon is covered by these ancient lunar lava flows in comparison to approximately one third of the visible surface of the first quarter moon.

Last Quarter Moon
by Musaemura Zimunya

This moonslice quarter
over this land of unsung beauty
hangs brilliant over the palpable dark,
haunted by fear of the unknown.
Somehow, though, we forget
and sing and dance
like frenzied demons on such a rebirth
aborted.

It is no longer prudent
to remember
where the other three-quarters hang:
Our searching fingers may unearth
worms of a faith dumped on its youth
and justice staggering under greed.
Were it not so would you begin
the telephone conversation with
a declaration of patriotism and bug-scorn?

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