These are a few photos of the life around the pond. Lots of pacific tree frogs are now making their way further from the water and into the surrounding flowers and grass. If I was a tiny frog, I would definitely choose to nestle inside the petals of a water lily on a hot day…
We also have lots of dragonflies. In the late spring, the water larvae of the dragonflies climbs up out of the pond on stalks of vegetation, where the skin on its back splits open and the adult dragonfly emerges, expands and dries. The empty larval skin (exuvia) remains as a reminder of the larva’s aquatic life. We were lucky to have witnessed one such dragonfly as it stretched out it’s new wings, making it’s transformation from water to air.
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