The frog is stone also. What a beautiful, lush environment for inanimate critters.
3.
Haydnseek
It’s not easy being gray…..
4.
craigie
Is the frog metaphorical?
5.
CaseyL
Hey, you put a ringer in there!
I do see the real frog. At least I’m pretty sure I do. The real frog doesn’t seem to want anything to do with the fake(s).
6.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Pretty sure I see the ?
Are we allowed to say where we think it is?
7.
randy khan
I appreciate the high quality images. Thank your family for me.
And this is way better than Andrew Sullivan’s view from your window game.
8.
daize
Thanks, John.
9.
prostratedragon
That must be the stone frog I see. Will look for the real one later. Right now looks and sounds deeply ominous here in Chicago. Completely dark, but still at least 15 minutes before sunset, and some pretty high wind gusts.
10.
trollhattan
Verdant water scene is very not-California right now. Nice. Ribbit.
If the stone frog could shoot arrows out its ass . . . .
30.
mrmoshpotato
@Ken: It’s not easy being green on the red planet.
31.
Spanky
When will Thunderfrog become the next superhero?
32.
Ohio Mom
Thanks, Cole. I was bummed out this morning when my new daily puzzle did not appear. Now I know to be patient.
BTW, your mom takes a good picture.
33.
piratedan
It is apparent to me that the frog is not only responsible for the mustard, i’d say there’s a good chance its in cahoots with the Willow.
34.
dexwood
Frog Paradise. Love the pond.
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karen marie
@prostratedragon: It’s been astonishingly nice here in AZ. My dog let me sleep in this morning because it was apparently raining. When I strolled out at 11 a.m. it was a balmy 79 degrees! Currently it’s ONLY 93! Whee! I’m looking at a 7-day forecast that doesn’t show a single day that hits 100 – double whee!
It’s been a strange summer. More rain than I remember in any other summer over the ten years I’ve been here. I fully expect that the following week will be back to triple digits but I’ll take this.
Well, I don’t see him today, but I had the exact same cast iron lantern in my garden in Michigan. Sniff..?
44.
scav
@Spanky: I’m in the think I see two (squishy) frogs possible delusion camp too.
45.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
There is a go figure; my mother was telling my crazy conservative uncle, the guy I was forbidden to speak to by my parents lest I drive the man into a rage induced stroke, is vaccinated and quite fed up with TFG. I had him pegged for anti vaccer heart worm med taker for sure.
Suppose he’s example people can change their minds. Then again, he is an engineer so he can’t just slide off into total fantasy land like the middle manger types do.
46.
piratedan
While watching Lawrence O’Donnell just a sec ago i heard Sen Chris Coons state that they have 50 Dem votes for the reconciliation bill… so if Manchin and Sinema are not on board its news to him….
47.
zhena gogolia
This is funny. Watch the Kennedy clip first. The Democrats wanted this infrastructure bill “like Ben wants J. Lo.”
@karen marie: We had 93 here too. Of course your high end beats ours easily, but we’ve also not had the extended heat wave we usually get, no loss to me. Spring rains never came and we had red flags in June. Now we’re almost back to the old rain pattern.
“We got outmaneuvered” will drive Mitch right over the edge!
50.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@zhena gogolia: What means Mr Haney by: “Intelligence was chasing us”? Like, it never caught them? they outran their own brains? he brought a four pound bucket but only three pounds of horseshit to the Hannity Hoedown?
Have seen it made with plums, with apricots or a combo thereof. Wouldn’t have immediately occurred to me to try preparing it with peaches, but why not?
@sab: You’re not alone. I blew that picture up as big as I could, and nothing.
Is it possible that Cole and his mom are funnin’ us?
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Bruce K in ATH-GR
My pattern recognition isn’t up to snuff today; I can only see the frog statue on the right, not any flesh-and-blood frogs. Mr. Frog is definitely on his camouflage game today.
68.
Spanky
I will grant you this, even fully blown up on my phone it’s not clear enough. It was easy enough on a 26″ monitor, though.
69.
lee
Found it!!
This was a tough one.
70.
lee
@Spanky: I’m not sure anyone on mobile is going to find the frog.
This time Mr. Frog was better hidden but once I established a grid and followed a “mowing the lawn” hard target search pattern with some image enhancement via magnification, success was mine. Finding Mr. Frog in the first picture was maybe a 2.7 on the Cole Scale of difficulty whereas this picture measured a 3.2 on the scale. Remember, the Cole Scale is logarithmic and open ended.
ETA: I did, in fact, succeed using my phone.
72.
sab
@lee: I finally looked for them on my laptop and found them. Now that I know where to look I can see them on my mobile, but no way I could have found them on the mobile.
Lovely little pond. Safer for the frogs that they are so hard to see.
Either anti-mosquito BT pellets, or perhaps Koi food.
I too would like to know for sure what they are… but those are my guesses.
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SWMBO
@opiejeanne:
First, I think Ma Cole is taking the pictures.
Second, I think she tries to center the frog in the shot.
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misterpuff
That’s how I knew my pH balance was off in the pool….when the frogs look residence (I know, very much a lagging indicator).
So I’d have to use the leaf screener to pick ’em out of the pool and shoo them back to the retaining pond back of the property before I shocked the heck out of the “cement pond”.
For some reason, they really liked the pool though, as soon as the chlorine level dropped, they’d be back in the pool.
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JPL
Did the stone cold turtle eat the frog?
Lapassionara
The frog is stone also. What a beautiful, lush environment for inanimate critters.
Haydnseek
It’s not easy being gray…..
craigie
Is the frog metaphorical?
CaseyL
Hey, you put a ringer in there!
I do see the real frog. At least I’m pretty sure I do. The real frog doesn’t seem to want anything to do with the fake(s).
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Pretty sure I see the ?
Are we allowed to say where we think it is?
randy khan
I appreciate the high quality images. Thank your family for me.
And this is way better than Andrew Sullivan’s view from your window game.
daize
Thanks, John.
prostratedragon
That must be the stone frog I see. Will look for the real one later. Right now looks and sounds deeply ominous here in Chicago. Completely dark, but still at least 15 minutes before sunset, and some pretty high wind gusts.
trollhattan
Verdant water scene is very not-California right now. Nice. Ribbit.
Immanentize
I see Jesus on the light/lantern.
Mart
@Immanentize: I see Bin Laden.
JPL
@Immanentize: If you see Jesus, that means you made your way to TX.
Lapassionara
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I wish you would say. I only see the stone frog.
PaulB
In the pond, perhaps? Or is that too much of a spoiler? (Not that I’m positive I’m correct.)
Ken
It’s only the second one, which seems too early for sneaking in a picture with no real frog….
Immanentize
@JPL: we are only a fourth of the way there (Mechanicsburg PA) but the pull of Josh Olsteen is strong!
I liked his church a lot better when the Rockets played there
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Lapassionara:
@PaulB:
It’s definitely in the pond. Hope that’s not too much of a giveaway. It took me 5 minutes or so of looking after zooming in
japa21
I do see it, once I blew up the picture. Even then, it’s obviously not a big frog.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Immanentize:
I’ve seen pictures of Olsteen. He looks weird and creepy
zhena gogolia
All I see are the fake ones.
Lapassionara
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Well, your eyesight is definitely better than mine. I still do not see a live frog.
I do occasionally stir a frog when gardening, and it is very hard to see even then, when it is scooting away from my spade.
sab
So only one this time?
MagdaInBlack
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I see it ?
topclimber
Make yourself plain, sir. Where is the GD frog?
If said frog is Pepe, I hope he has drowned.
Spanky
@sab: No, there are actually two very real frogs in this picture, in very similar poses. Not gonna say more.
Ken
I think I found it. Or it might be paredolia, like the silhouette of Kermit found in the Mars images.
mrmoshpotato
@prostratedragon: Good storm.
namekarB
If the stone frog could shoot arrows out its ass . . . .
mrmoshpotato
@Ken: It’s not easy being green on the red planet.
Spanky
When will Thunderfrog become the next superhero?
Ohio Mom
Thanks, Cole. I was bummed out this morning when my new daily puzzle did not appear. Now I know to be patient.
BTW, your mom takes a good picture.
piratedan
It is apparent to me that the frog is not only responsible for the mustard, i’d say there’s a good chance its in cahoots with the Willow.
dexwood
Frog Paradise. Love the pond.
karen marie
@prostratedragon: It’s been astonishingly nice here in AZ. My dog let me sleep in this morning because it was apparently raining. When I strolled out at 11 a.m. it was a balmy 79 degrees! Currently it’s ONLY 93! Whee! I’m looking at a 7-day forecast that doesn’t show a single day that hits 100 – double whee!
It’s been a strange summer. More rain than I remember in any other summer over the ten years I’ve been here. I fully expect that the following week will be back to triple digits but I’ll take this.
debbie
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
My best friend from high school is enamored with him. It’s more depressing than her support for Sarah Palin.
WaterGirl
I am not good at this. Is Mr. Frog made of cement, by any chance?
On the plus side, this water garden is so beautiful that it’s nice to be reminded of the beauty every day. Even if I never actually find the frog.
(mild pout)
Ken
Been there, done that, with Throg.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@WaterGirl: Mr. C. Mentfrog is the only frog I see.
prostratedragon
@mrmoshpotato: When the small hail hit I wondered if the Mr. Frog post was an omen. Got all the rain at once, but no lightning close by.
Benw
I see Mr Turtle and Mr Froggo!
piratedan
@Spanky: just check out My Hero Academia for super froggy powers on display
satby
Well, I don’t see him today, but I had the exact same cast iron lantern in my garden in Michigan. Sniff..?
scav
@Spanky: I’m in the think I see two (squishy) frogs possible delusion camp too.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
There is a go figure; my mother was telling my crazy conservative uncle, the guy I was forbidden to speak to by my parents lest I drive the man into a rage induced stroke, is vaccinated and quite fed up with TFG. I had him pegged for anti vaccer heart worm med taker for sure.
Suppose he’s example people can change their minds. Then again, he is an engineer so he can’t just slide off into total fantasy land like the middle manger types do.
piratedan
While watching Lawrence O’Donnell just a sec ago i heard Sen Chris Coons state that they have 50 Dem votes for the reconciliation bill… so if Manchin and Sinema are not on board its news to him….
zhena gogolia
This is funny. Watch the Kennedy clip first. The Democrats wanted this infrastructure bill “like Ben wants J. Lo.”
prostratedragon
@karen marie: We had 93 here too. Of course your high end beats ours easily, but we’ve also not had the extended heat wave we usually get, no loss to me. Spring rains never came and we had red flags in June. Now we’re almost back to the old rain pattern.
debbie
@zhena gogolia:
“We got outmaneuvered” will drive Mitch right over the edge!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@zhena gogolia: What means Mr Haney by: “Intelligence was chasing us”? Like, it never caught them? they outran their own brains? he brought a four pound bucket but only three pounds of horseshit to the Hannity Hoedown?
mrmoshpotato
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: D. All of the above
Jay
The Brit anti-vaxxers, ( we did our own research!) attempted to attack the BBC today.
Funny thing is that the location they attacked hasn’t been used by the Beeb since 2013.
So much for their google fu,……
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/09/confused-anti-vaccine-protesters-storm-bbc-hq-years-after-moved-out
NotMax
Food for thought.
Have seen it made with plums, with apricots or a combo thereof. Wouldn’t have immediately occurred to me to try preparing it with peaches, but why not?
Starfish
@Jay:
These kind folks wrote a song for the anti-vaxxers.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Odd lack of duck in that sauce recipe.
NotMax
It’s tough to make out as there’s only half a frog showing.
I did count 5 invisible koi, though!
(Remember back to the days when Mr. Cole’s photos were intrinsically out of focus?)
;)
mrmoshpotato
@Starfish: Haha, nice.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Just gonna link to the tail end.
;)
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Yikes. Potentially stabbed with a duck.
HumboldtBlue
I know there are some Maddow fans about these here parts, and Grandma Pat has some questions that MSNBC need to answer.
Jackie
@HumboldtBlue: I love Grandma Pat.
HumboldtBlue
@Jackie:
That was my introduction.
burnspbesq
ICYMI, four of Texas’ five big-city school districts have told Abbott where he can shove his ban on mask mandates (waiting on El Paso).
sab
@Spanky: I still can’t find them, but thanks for the clues.
Brian
@Immanentize:
Joel Osteen
opiejeanne
@sab: You’re not alone. I blew that picture up as big as I could, and nothing.
Is it possible that Cole and his mom are funnin’ us?
Bruce K in ATH-GR
My pattern recognition isn’t up to snuff today; I can only see the frog statue on the right, not any flesh-and-blood frogs. Mr. Frog is definitely on his camouflage game today.
Spanky
I will grant you this, even fully blown up on my phone it’s not clear enough. It was easy enough on a 26″ monitor, though.
lee
Found it!!
This was a tough one.
lee
@Spanky: I’m not sure anyone on mobile is going to find the frog.
cope
This time Mr. Frog was better hidden but once I established a grid and followed a “mowing the lawn” hard target search pattern with some image enhancement via magnification, success was mine. Finding Mr. Frog in the first picture was maybe a 2.7 on the Cole Scale of difficulty whereas this picture measured a 3.2 on the scale. Remember, the Cole Scale is logarithmic and open ended.
ETA: I did, in fact, succeed using my phone.
sab
@lee: I finally looked for them on my laptop and found them. Now that I know where to look I can see them on my mobile, but no way I could have found them on the mobile.
Lovely little pond. Safer for the frogs that they are so hard to see.
planetjanet
What are the little yellow pellets?
J R in WV
@planetjanet:
Either anti-mosquito BT pellets, or perhaps Koi food.
I too would like to know for sure what they are… but those are my guesses.
SWMBO
@opiejeanne:
First, I think Ma Cole is taking the pictures.
Second, I think she tries to center the frog in the shot.
misterpuff
That’s how I knew my pH balance was off in the pool….when the frogs look residence (I know, very much a lagging indicator).
So I’d have to use the leaf screener to pick ’em out of the pool and shoo them back to the retaining pond back of the property before I shocked the heck out of the “cement pond”.
For some reason, they really liked the pool though, as soon as the chlorine level dropped, they’d be back in the pool.