April 23, 2013 -- toad

I had dropped some Lenten rose flowers into this basket of bottles and was thinking about putting another Lenten rose in the middle, when a toad across the room caught my eye. It's not a read toad, just a stone? plaster? one, but it looks so real I've always loved it and had it sitting on the kitchen table. Before plopping it on the middle bottle, I went out to find a lily pad for it to sit on. A small May apple leaf did the trick.