{"id":5421,"date":"2016-07-12T19:55:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T23:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2016-07-12T19:55:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T23:55:33","slug":"adirondack-chronicles-2016-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/2016\/07\/adirondack-chronicles-2016-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Adirondack Chronicles 2016.4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"frog<\/a>Life in the wild in the Adirondacks is beautiful, but also very Hobbesian.\u00a0 Surely you know Thomas Hobbes, the pessimistic political philosopher of the middle ages who seems so right for these times — he who described life as “nasty, brutish and short” and so untenable that people would seek the Leviathan to save them.\u00a0 Well.\u00a0 Nuff political theory for this day.\u00a0 But back to the birds and bees… frogs and butterflies<\/p>\n

Consider this tale of the frog and the butterfly.<\/p>\n

I came upon this pensive frog not on the lillypads where he belonged but on a pavement near a lake.\u00a0 Even as I got closer he didn’t budge.\u00a0 Hmm.<\/p>\n

\"butterflies<\/a>A few minutes earlier, I had been observing these yellow butterflies not on the flowers where they belonged, but having a small convention on the beach.\u00a0 Remember what those wings look like.<\/p>\n

Back to the frog.\u00a0 As I was watching him (from my car window with a long lens) out of the corner of my eye I saw a yellow flash.\u00a0 And, faster than the nanosecond of my camera shutter, there was a brief and fatal skirmish, winding up with the only evidence left….<\/p>\n

\"frog<\/a>The mere crumb of a once glorious yellow wing and a bit of leg protruding from the frog’s lips.<\/p>\n

Let it be a lesson to all of us:\u00a0 one minute you’re a beautiful butterfly.\u00a0 Next minute you’re a frog’s lunch.\u00a0 Be careful who you flit around!<\/p>\n

\"heron<\/a>Food is the main work of most animals in the wild.\u00a0 I saw this great blue heron watching for fish and as I snapped the shutter a beaver casually swam past.<\/p>\n

\"heron<\/a>The heron got the fish while the beaver munched on some reeds.<\/p>\n

\"heron<\/a>Herons love those fish!<\/p>\n

\"eagle<\/a>As do eagles…<\/p>\n

\"chippee<\/a>And chipmunks?\u00a0 Well, let’s just say this one appears to be overdoing the nuts…<\/p>\n

\"hawk<\/a>This hawk did not like being interrupted while dining on some tasty thing…<\/p>\n

Saw a bear run across the road tonight, but she didn’t stop to wave.\u00a0 Saw a coyote last night but fortunately I was too slow to stop to ask for a photo op.\u00a0 Good thing, that.\u00a0 I don’t want to be a coyote’s dinner.\u00a0 Or a frog’s lunch.<\/p>\n

One more to enjoy:<\/p>\n

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Don’t be a frog’s lunch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adirondack-chronicles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}