September 1, 2011

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?

At our house you never know who will show up, especially when we're playing in the backyard before dinner.  We have found that frogs and crawdads make lovely centerpieces at our dinner table and are welcome guests.

For her birthday McKenzie received a bug catching net, a critter box, a magnifying class and some binoculars from Grandma and Grandpa C and we have been putting them to good use.  We always practice catch and release with anything we catch since the last thing I need is a frog escaping inside the house.

McKenzie admiring the Mama and Baby frogs we caught

Mama frog!

Ben trying to figure out what the heck we've caught!  Crawdads sure are strange looking creatures.

It's such a great experience to be able to find this much nature in our own backyard!  Makes us appreciate the stream even more.  

1 comment:

Gina Lillie said...

Not sure if your critters are the guests or main course? Crawdads and Frog legs sounds like a southern dinner.