Toad in the Road

Last night I went for a long walk outside the village to look at the stars.  Even though it was nearly midnight, it was still roasting hot.  As I got near the school is saw this strange lump at the side of the road.  Then I saw another about three feet away.  It was two toads, eyeing each other up. They weren't anything like the teensy frog we saw before: these were about the size of the palm of you hand.

I walked all the way to the cherry trees and back  which took about twenty minutes.  And there they both were, in exactly the same positions as when I first saw them.  Here's a photo of one of them.