Gray Treefrog

Sometimes I think if it wasn't for Scout I'd never see anything.  It isn't so much that he notices things and brings them to my attention; far from it.  This past spring I looked up while walking him and saw a doe and fawn, not thirty feet away.  And even after I got out the camera and snapped a few pictures Scout was so immersed in sniffing a shrub he never saw them.  But he does give me a reason to get outside.

Today we were out at the dog park, and I was looking for something to photograph while he made his rounds.  I spotted some bumblebees on a clump of flowers in the sun, so I switched into macro mode to see what I could get.

I had taken a dozen shots when I noticed a green leaf that was shaped like a tiny frog.  Turns out it actually was a frog, a gray treefrog, which has the ability to mimic its environment by changing colors.  Its color was such a perfect match I took all my pictures with the frog in plain sight and hadn't seen it.  Here's a less cropped version of the photo above where you can see the frog in the upper left corner.

He (or she) must have been groggy from the sun, and was a good deal easier to get an in-focus shot of than the bumblebees.