Friday, May 4, 2007 - BFS #25
“Nature Speaks”
This weeks assignment involves our natural surroundings. One day this week, take a stroll around outside and let God’s beauty speak to you. Listen for the rush of winds, the leaves swaying, or even just the total silence. Look around for signs of God’s love and power. Do you see symbols of His great works? For instance, after a light rain, you might see your footprints and be reminded of the spiritual popular poem “Footprints” and can vision God carrying you. Share your findings either in a description or a picture
I'm going to kill two entries with one post! I was going to blog about our tadpoles and this week's assignment just happens to be about nature!
There was a song that I sang when I was young that went something, like, "Bullfrogs and butterflies, they both been born again."
The change that happens to tadpoles and caterpillars is a great picture of what happens when we give our heart and life to Christ. There is a dramatic change that is visible, just as the change from tadpole to frog and caterpillar to butterfly.
Cameron and I both had such a great time raising caterpillars last year. We both learned a lot from this up close experience. When I found a book about frogs a few weeks ago, I was excited to try again to learn first hand from God's creation. The book tells about different types of frogs and also how to catch and raise tadpoles to adult hood.
My mother and her husband have a pond on their property and gave us their permission to take some eggs and tadpoles home.
The eggs are in one continuous strand that twists and turns much like a telephone cord.
We took a few of these eggs to see if we are able to watch them hatch.
My mother helping Cameron rescue some tads from his net.
The book said to feed them algae or boiled lettuce. I got some more algae from the pond but they seem to really like the boiled lettuce.
They are very tiny right now but it is great fun to sit there and watch them swim around. They seem like just a little black dot with a tail. It is hard to see much of anything else.
Comments
Saturday, May 5, 2007 - Awesome job
Posted by jenn4him
I feel as if I were right there with you getting tadpoles! I didn't know the eggs were in lines like that. I've learned something!
Jenn
Sunday, May 6, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by hugs4Him
We've raised caterpillars too; that was great & we hope to do it again soon. This time I can blog about it LOL. Those tadpoles are incredible! What fun it will be to follow their growing up process!
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 - Cool!
Posted by acraisydaisy
A friend of mine on the coast last year gave us some tadpoles to raise. It was alot of fun. There were three of us raising them and each of us had them in a different set up. One friend kept hers in a large covered jar on top of her warm fridge, the other friend kept hers outside in a fish tank in the shade, and I kept ours in a fishtank with oxygen just like for fish. We wanted to see whose changed the first, and it was my friend who kept hers on the fridge...sadly our cat at ours lol.
Monday, May 14, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Training Hearts
Wow...I had never seen them in this stage. Thank you for sharing.
Tamara
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