Ode to Frog and Toad

Last summer I worked from my home in the rural lowcountry of South Carolina. My desk was right by the back door with the tree-line 30ft away, so I usually took my bathroom breaks among the pines. For several evenings, I noticed what appeared to be the same two amphibians perched outside my door, hunting in the light from inside. It was a treefrog, always on the door's glass, and a toad, always on the doorstep below. Though they may not have known it, I enjoyed their company, and we had a mutually beneficial relationship. They didn't have to do anything, they were just there, and that made me happy. One night I composed a few lines to commemorate this kinship, coupled it with pictures of the duo, edited it all together in LunaPic, and voila.

I was already doing another woodworking project at the time, so I decided to go off on a tangent to make a frame for this work. I salvaged the sapwood from some white cedar to make it. The boards were all sawed, planed, and sanded by hand