5. Ecuador Adventures and Frogs – Suchipakari Part II

by Margot Fass | Sep 19, 2017 | Ecuador Adventures and Frogs, Frog Blog

Friday, June 9th, Monkey Frogs After lunch, the local guide Walter took us on “El Gran Cacique” (“The Great Chieftan”) hike. He was equipped for the job he said, because his father was a Shaman, or medicine man.    The first major stop was at a giant Ceibo...

4. Ecuador Adventures and Frogs – Suchipakari Part I

by Margot Fass | Sep 12, 2017 | Ecuador Adventures and Frogs, Frog Blog

Friday, June 9th, Into the jungle, (1st photo not withstanding) Jaime, professional wildlife photographer and guide, arrived at Villa DaFiore just in time for the group photo in the previous blog.  He is a good friend of Chelsea’s, and helped her while she was living...

3. Ecuador Adventures and Frogs – Villa daFiore and Tumbaco Part II

by Margot Fass | Sep 4, 2017 | Ecuador Adventures and Frogs, Frog Blog

Thursday, June 8th, Getting to know you All of the schools in the Tumbaco area are centralized, within a few blocks of each other.  The geopolitical consequence of this is that children at a distance, poorer, or in a small barrio without transportation, do not get to...

2. Ecuador Adventures and Frogs – Villa daFiore Part I

by Margot Fass | Aug 29, 2017 | Ecuador Adventures and Frogs, Frog Blog

Thursday, June 8th  – A Few Trip Bugs Arriving late on June 7th, it was around midnight when we got through customs, and I looked in vain for someone in the welcoming crowd with a sign with my name. Apparently our tour guide thought I was supposed to ask her to...

1. Ecuador Adventures and Frogs – Prologue

by Margot Fass | Aug 22, 2017 | Ecuador Adventures and Frogs, Frog Blog

Every Tuesday at Two PM, I am posting the week’s exciting new Frog Blog on my website, Frog-Artist.com, and on Facebook See below for the Prologue of my Ecuador Frogging and Galapagos Trip. June 7th – 28th Three Weeks of Heaven on Earth Three face plants...

Where Is That Pesky Frog, Anyway?

by Margot Fass | Feb 25, 2014 | Frog Blog

In some nations with less technology but more civility, everyone in the community is both expected and able to express themselves creatively, whether in song, music, dance, theatre, crafts, sculpture, drawing or painting. However, in the United States, we regularly...

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice?

by Margot Fass | Feb 11, 2014 | Frog Blog

What does this painting have to do with frogs? A woman, possibly dead. Mystery. Sherlock Holmes as seen in the several BBC series with Benedict Cumberbatch. Study in Pink, (cleverly recreated from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Study in Scarlet), has inspired (I’m in love!) the...

On getting around and being where you would like to be

by Margot Fass | Feb 6, 2014 | Frog Blog

Yesterday Rochester experienced just some of the storm that hit the northeast. Between 7:45 am, when I went out, until 11 pm, when I returned, our world was transformed. In the morning, the sidewalks and streets were bare, except for treacherously icy stretches and...

Beat Frog, Square Frog and Frog

by Karen Beck | Jan 21, 2014 | Mystical Musings

(with giggles and apologies to Alan Watts) What is the sound of one frog swimming? If one frog leaped and no one was around to see him would he make a splash? “Old pond Frog splashing Plop!” ~Basho Japan, 1686 As a frog strokes her way through puddles and ponds is she...

Frogs: Lessons in Transformation, Alchemy, Contrast and Camouflage.

by Karen Beck | Jan 2, 2014 | Mystical Musings

Frogs (we favor the Red-Eyed Tree variety) are lessons in transformation, alchemy, contrast and camouflage. What can we possibly learn from frogs in the arguably more complicated world of humans, where friends become enemies or lovers hemorrhage into life forms known...