Inaugural GroundFrog Day begins, will the amphibian see is shadow?
Long before settlers arrived and named the snow-capped volcano “Mount Rain Here!”, and long before Lewis and Clark discovered ½ café Grande latte’s, comes the legend of Snohomish Slew. Seeking to find an enchanted kingdom, the frog fresh from tadpole graduation, as legend tells us, hopped his way across the country to the Pacific Northwest. The frog’s quest was to find a luscious green year round climate with plenty of food and fauna in order to avoid long winter hibernation. Preferably, this frog wanted to escape the doldrums of amphibian slumber, the melancholy caused by relentless French epicurean’s pursuit and absorb the sleepless in Seattle lifestyle.
Following the paths blazed by migrating sheepherders and snail darters over the Continental Divide the frog queried many of Mother Nature’s creatures along this great journey. Asking for directions along the quest: The Sasquatch told the frog to seek the land between Mount Rain, Here and Mount Woodchuck, where a great valley shares a river with great freshness and life. The wild pigs that ran naked in the forest told the frog to seek the valley where the river runs pink with salmon. The majestic Bald Eagle told the frog to look for a place near a great estuary where other eagles, hawks, and songbirds sing all the livelong day.
There, close to a great bay, will be the soggy and foggy land that lends itself to frog frolicking and frog play. A stately White tailed buck told the frog to follow the river to the place where muskrats and river otters play Marco Polo with the steelheads. Additionally the buck warned the frog to stay away from migration trails and not look into the wagon lights at night. Months passed; (because frogs are faster than snails but slower than turtles. Besides frogs are not known for their acute sense of direction. So continuing along the way the frog encountered other creatures that provided direction and advice. A rookery of a Blue Herron passed on eating the frog in exchange for the frog’s promise of creating a large pond or pool, pool or pond, of scum and many other happy frogs. They told the frog to seek the place where mushrooms and toadstools grow taller than yard Gnomes.
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