TWO LISTS

According to a little booklet on frogs, frogs are:

• everywhere


• entirely harmless


• not destroyers of crops or property


• not transmitters of human disease


• amphibians


• fascinating: they metamorphose from tadpole to frog, becoming a totally different creature in a matter of days. (Wouldn't it be marvellous if humans had the ability to become different creatures, even if it took a little longer?)

and yet, they are often loathed and feared. Me, I like frogs.

I was working on a paisley design in which I used two frogs to tie things together, so to speak; then I decided to start a new design with a frog as central image, and working towards the top, adding most, some or all of the following:

• lillies
• waterblommetjies
• agapanthus
• a mouse
• a bird
• clouds
• perhaps an aeroplane, or a
• hadida if space allows, which it ought to. (Mmm. Notice some repetition here?)

The images above are of the two designs. Neither has been completed, but I sure hope they both soon will be. On the drawing board they are black on white, but they will eventually be printed in different colours, no doubt.