{"id":668,"date":"2026-03-03T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/?p=668"},"modified":"2026-05-24T11:28:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:28:55","slug":"socks-frog-pond-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/socks-frog-pond-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Sock&#8217;s Frog Pond 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Years ago I began taking photographs each spring at what we call <a href=\"https:\/\/sootypaws.net\/woods\/frogpond\/intro.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sock&#8217;s Frog Pond<\/a>. Each spring&#8217;s photos are different. This is a small vernal pool that can be surprisingly dynamic with reflected light. This year the water was shallower so bits of leaves and twigs were on the surface creating an unusual glimmer like stars in a galaxy. I&#8217;m going to post the photos without comment and I hope everyone enjoys the view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2766_450w.jpg\" alt=\"Frog pond photo 1\" class=\"wp-image-670\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2766_450w.jpg 450w, http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2766_450w-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2769_450w.jpg\" alt=\"Frog pond photo 2\" class=\"wp-image-671\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2769_450w.jpg 450w, http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2769_450w-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2772_450w.jpg\" alt=\"Frog pond photo 3\" class=\"wp-image-672\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2772_450w.jpg 450w, http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2772_450w-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2775_450w.jpg\" alt=\"Frog pond photo 4\" class=\"wp-image-673\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2775_450w.jpg 450w, http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2775_450w-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2778_450w.jpg\" alt=\"Frog pond photo 5\" class=\"wp-image-674\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2778_450w.jpg 450w, http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2778_450w-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2779_450w.jpg\" alt=\"Frog pond photo 6\" class=\"wp-image-669\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2779_450w.jpg 450w, http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2779_450w-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have a full-size example of the last image that can be<a href=\"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026-frog-pond-large-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> downloaded<\/a> to view on a large screen (4032 x 3024 pixels, 4.8 MB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I began taking photographs each spring at what we call Sock&#8217;s Frog Pond. Each spring&#8217;s photos are different. This is a small vernal pool that can be surprisingly dynamic with reflected light. This year the water was shallower so bits of leaves and twigs were on the surface creating an unusual glimmer like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sootypaws.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}