A Garden Resident

I few days ago I was working in one of my flower beds, pulling grass out of my ground cover.  As I pulled out some grass at first I thought that a clump of dirt went flying.  But then I realized that it was one of the creatures that I see each year in the garden... a toad.

Since then I have been seeing a toad almost every day as I work in the garden, much more than usual.  One of my neighbors told me that he had seen a bunch of tadpoles in the "lake" in his back yard during the heavy rains.  So I guess it's not just a couple of toads, but a small army of them.  That's fine.  You are all welcome to take up residence in my garden and eat the mosquitos!