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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Little cousin

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I almost put my hand on the tiny frog posing next to the garbage bin handle this morning, a tiny frog whose glorious beauty shines through even a quick cell-phone photo. Could any more frog beauty be revealed through editing (or from a photo taken in RAW with a DSLR, or from one taken with my Zeiss Ikon Contaflex on silver halide film)?
    Yes, no doubt.
    But this morning—now—the beauty already evident (it's in our minds, after all, isn't it, the mind's eye of our beholding?) is enough, and more.
    We share this planet, little guy (or gal).
    We're even related, unimaginably way back in time—about three hundred and forty million years back in time (340,000 millennia!), if I understand Richard Dawkins right from reading his 2004 book, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (see the chapter "Amphibians," beginning on p. 293).
Posted by Moristotle at 6/17/2012 08:19:00 AM
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7 comments:

  1. SteveSunday, June 17, 2012 at 2:18:00 PM EDT

    Nice photo.

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    1. MoristotleSunday, June 17, 2012 at 3:38:00 PM EDT

      Only because the frog is so photogenic...and still. I don't believe he winced at all as my hand touched the handle.

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  2. MoristotleSunday, June 17, 2012 at 3:40:00 PM EDT

    You're welcome. Yes, that was an annoyance, wasn't it? And, for a while, I was getting these randomly applied links to things, which I shortly discovered had started as a result of my authorizing something called "I want that" to Google, which was pretty clever of Google to ask me to authorize. Did you happen to see one of those before I checked and turned it off?

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  3. SteveMonday, June 18, 2012 at 4:25:00 AM EDT

    No, never noticed them.

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  4. motomyndMonday, June 18, 2012 at 6:14:00 PM EDT

    You mean that to post replies we no longer have to channel our inner Star Wars android to help decipher some code from a planet far, far away?

    Nice photo, btw...

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    1. MoristotleMonday, June 18, 2012 at 9:26:00 PM EDT

      Yes, and I apologize to you, too, for making you do that for some weeks. Does it help you to know that I was having to do it also?
          No, I didn't think so.

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  5. motomyndMonday, June 18, 2012 at 10:07:00 PM EDT

    It wasn't so bad getting back in touch with R2D2 and C3PO...

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