The animals around here don’t celebrate Earth Day — they’re too busy fighting. Seriously, it seems like the local Grackles, Robins, and Squirrels have all been at each others’ throats lately, presumably settling complicated territorial disputes.

But humans are getting the hang of it, though (celebrating Earth Day, that is – they’re already pretty darn good at fighting). Take Starbucks, for example, where they were giving free coffee to those bearing Travel Mugs. Of course, I felt like a villain just walking out of there without paying a single cent, so I bought a “cold coffee in a can” drink to make the guilt go away (that’s what shopping is for, after all).

Anyhow, my Earth Day gift to you is two pictures of morphing Wood Frog eggs:

#1 – mostly egg stage

#2 - some serious hatching going on