Of course this image is from more archive trolling. But on this drizzly cool day (at least it’s not snowing yet) a Lithobatesian smile warms things up nicely.
Bullfrog in Poor Farm Swamp-2008- shortly after the fun times with that Green Heron.
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A fine smile! 🙂
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Ear to ear! Maybe he just had a great meal.
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He’s probably much happier when he swallows a fly than we would be. 🙂
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These guys always seem so happy. 🙂
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Better a Lithobatesian smile than the one held by Norman Bates in “Psycho.”
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Well, without an opposable thumb he couldn’t be as evil as Alan I’d think.
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With a tongue like his, who needs thumbs?
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Sure would have made the shower scene a lot more interesting and a bit less disturbing…or not.
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He’d love our weather just now. Seventy degrees and plenty of rain is making even the grumpiest human smile.
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Of course this brought to mind David Bromberg’s “Bullfrog Blues.” That sent me on a little frog hunt of my own, and I found this William Harris gem. The Wiki says that for a time he performed with a traveling medicine show, probably with F. S. Wolcott’s Rabbit Foot Minstrels.
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I’ve got a ton of comments to reply to but figured I didn’t want to forget my response to this. Yep, lately we are both in each other’s head…at least for references.
I can’t remember if I mentioned before that my cousin used to work with Alan Lomax who studied various old time blues musicians in the south. I don’t recall many of the lesser known names but this might have been one of the recordings.
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Thanks, I didn’t know about Harris, wonderful to know about another classic blues musician, almost lost to history.
But Bromberg–I didn’t know this song–what a tour de force–I ain’t never heard the like, except maybe another Bromberg song. It’s considerably different than Harris’ version!
Bromberg Bullfrog Blues
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It sure is. I’ve followed Bromberg for years. I think my favorite of all his songs actually is his cover of Ian Tyson’s “Summer Wages.”
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I’d love it too. Despite my love of ice abstracts I am beginning to dread cold weather.
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I am glad, although belatedly so, that you folks finally got some substantial rain.
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I like the big smile on its face. A great discovery in your archives! One needs to go often back to the archives. There are so many pearls left waiting to be published.
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That there are. And many of them are salvageable with new software and skills. Bullfrogs always seem so happy.
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That smile would light up even the dourest grinch’s screen. And Lithobates – because they tread on or climb stones, says Wikipedia. Nothing stony about this fella.
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Thanks, Lynn. I’ve not photographed one on a stone yet. I did get one on a culvert. 🙂
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P.S. Regarding bullfrog tongues–I had to look up just how they work:
“Frogs capture their prey by covering them in some of the stickiest saliva known to science made from a non-Newtonian fluid. This saliva is secreted from thousands of mucus glands and transforms from a liquid to a solid and back, making it easy to catch and grip insects.” https://toadsnfrogs.com/frog-tongue/
Whoa, maybe no BadAss Bates ain’t got nothin’ on a big bullfrog!
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I wondered if frog saliva had any uses but did not find any…aside from frogs’ purposes. I thought maybe scientists had discover the molecular properties such as they have with barnacle cement. Something tells me Marion Crane would have rather been receiving frog tongue pokes.
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Thanks Steve, for your interesting comment! Barnacle cement!? Who knew they were such intricate beings with such magical abilities. So many things I don’t know about. It inspired me with some random free associations (one of my favorite ADHD style activities :-P) and I ended up here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys946aLVB2I !
Maybe mixed metaphor-mosis is my real calling? Maybe I was a chameleon in another life or maybe I’m evolving into one in this life. Now I wanna learn to play the spoons.
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That was a fun destination. Thanks. I have to admit that the entire time spent watching I wondered if that was the singer’s real nose. That ring is huge.
Try to remove a barnacle from a rock someday. 😂
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LOVE that smile!!!
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Frogs do seem to have a beatific quality to them.
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Looks very happy to have its picture taken!
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Bullfrogs are great models. Always with the Mona Lisa smile. 🙂
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What a great smile – obviously a happy frog Friday! 🙂
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Frogs seem so beatific. Hard not to smile along with them.
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🙂
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