Silas

It must be frog season. It seems as if there are frogs wherever I go.

There has been a frog sitting outside the door of my dorm room in the same spot, every night, for the last few nights. Myself and all of my roommates have almost stepped on him on several occasions. Even when he nearly gets squished to death, he doesn't move; just enjoys the nice dark hallway, steps away from the lake. He is a very cute frog, and has been named Silas by my roommate. He comes and goes as he pleases, but he always makes my day when he is sitting outside my door. The picture posted is of Silas outside my door.

Another frog incidence occurred when I was babysitting a few days ago. I was in the pool with the kids when I saw something black hopping on a pool float. This frog was black with speckles, and much smaller than Silas. I don't think he liked being in the pool water very much though, so I picked up the float and put it on the edge of the pool so he would no longer be stranded.

Again with the frogs. I was walking to my friends dorm the other night, which is on the third floor. Walking up the stairs, I nearly stepped on a tree frog, but instead of stepping on the little guy, I lose my balance and fall against the railing to avoid putting my foot down. As I was stumbling on the stairs to avoid the frog, it decides to jump on the back of my leg and cling there. It really scared me, as I was not expecting it at all. I walked up a few more steps and it finally jumped off and back onto the railing. He was very cute as well. Green tree frogs are my favorite.

I am very glad that frogs relate to Colloquium, even more so than the book, I believe. I have never been so frustrated by a book in my entire life.

Philosphy?

Just a few things today;

1) I have no idea what is being said in the book, Living in the End Times. It rambles on and switches topics ever couple paragraphs and lacks cohesiveness. Philosophy makes no sense.

2) Driving to the school using the alternate entrance, I saw 2 bald eagles soaring through the trees and then out over North Lake Village Housing. They are such beautiful creatures. After 2 years of going to my school at FGCU, it was my first time seeing bald eagles flying around.

Mantanzas Pass

Yesterday was the field trip to Mantanzas Pass on Ft. Myers Beach. The walk was fairly short so not many pictures were taken. We didn't see any animals, so the pictures are all of different plants that I liked or that I thought looked interesting.

Corkscrew Swamp

It's a little late but I am finally getting around to posting some of the pictures that I took from our first field trip, to Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. I took about 50 pictures, so I will only post the ones that I liked the best. My group also didn't see much wildlife, considering there were several loud individuals in our group. Even with that said, we did see some pretty flowers and a few turtles.

Turtles

I believe that it is turtle hatching time. =] I went kayaking on the FGCU lake today and almost paddled over a baby soft shelled turtle when I was pulling up on shore. It was quite cute. Back home, I live on a lake, Lake Tarpon. Every year, my family would find dozens of baby turtles by our pool, on our drive way, and in our backyard. We usually see red-eared sliders and soft shelled turtles. A few nights a week during turtle season, we would go around our house searching for any of the baby turtles, to make sure that they find their way to the lake, rather than the chlorinated pool. I like turtles.

I was also going to post some pictures of the turtles, but for some reason, it is not letting me right now. So I guess pictures will not be a part of this blog after all.