I took a day off today and spent a good portion of it with Tim as we put the results of the latest shopping trip into the ground and in terra cotta pots on the deck. In the late afternoon, as the sun finally began to set on a freakishly hot April day (92 degrees was the high), I saw what I thought was a pretty rock on the railing.Only this rock was fairly squishy and on closer examination it had eyes.

We've never seen a toad on our deck before. Could it have been drawn by the water we were splashing onto the plants? Or was it just hanging out in the shade of a newly planted pot? He wasn't revealing much, but Tim took a great photo.

Nature, suburban style.