International Rock Flipping Day

 

Today is International Rock Flipping Day.

You and your friends and family go for a walk, find a rock, flip it over, and document what you find underneath.

I haven't figured out how to link my blog entry, but there is a Flickr group here.

So I persuaded husband to go along as muscle, and the dogs as protection (you never know when a squirrel might attack), and went to look for some rocks.

Since we had an inch and a half of rain yesterday, most of the rocks I knew about were partially submerged.

On the way to the next lot, we found

 a caterpillar crossing the path.

There was one rock that husband was willing to lift.

I spotted the sow beetle right off.

 And the grass that was trying to lift the rock.

 Then husband said "What is that?"

 and I finally saw the toad, settled in for the winter.

Husband insisted on moving it before putting the rock back down,

so I got a photo of it in the grass, too.

 Then husband went back to his computer, and the dogs and I went for our walk.