NYC Frog Project On the Road

White Mountains National Forest, NH
Bear Notch Road

We were on our way to get ice cream when we saw this guy.  Wayne slammed on the brakes and I jumped out and snapped a few pictures.

NYC Frog Project on the Road

Live Frogs:  Maine Edition

While traveling through Acadia National Park on a rainy August day, we came across a pond with dozens of these guys hanging out on lily pads:

A couple of days later, in Baxter State Park, we found this guy in the woods around Daicey Pond, where we followed the Appalachian Trail for about a mile:

Frog Graffiti

Metropolitan Avenue
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

I'm not sure if this really counts as graffiti since someone was probably paid to paint it for Baked in Brooklyn--a sign of the times in Williamsburg.

Playground Frogs

Mother Cabrini Park
Red Hook, Brooklyn

According to the NYC Parks web site, Mother Cabrini Park was named for the first American citizen to be canonized:

This park honors Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917), a Roman Catholic missionary, and the first American citizen to be canonized.  Cabrini was born in a small town near Lodi, Italy.  At the age of 30, she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, dedicating the group to the ministrty of the poor.  In 1889, Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) sent Cabrini and her missionaries to the United States to aid Italian immigrants.  In Manhattan, Cabrini taught at St. Joachim's paris, the Church of Our Lady of Pompeii, and the Transfiguration Catholic Church.  She also taught at St. Rita of Cascia in the Bronx as well as the Church of St. Stephen (now Sacred Hearts and St. Stephen's Church) in Brooklyn.

Public Art: 81st Street Subway, American Museum of Natural History

The 81st Street--Museum of Natural History stop on the IND Eighth Avenue Line features an installation called For Want of a Nail. It was commissioned in 2000 by the MTA, which describes it like this:

In For Want of a Nail, the artist team used a variety of materials to suggest the range and diversity at the American Museum of Natural History, directly above the subway station.  glass mosaic, glass tile, ceramic tile, granite, and bronze relief are combined in ways that highlight the ten key disciplines at the Museum.  The mosaics represent extinct and living animals, the former in grey and the latter in color.  The work assembles images from outer space to the earth's core and from the first organisms to emerge to mammals of today. The artwork was a collaboration between MTA Arts for Transit and the Museum.  For Want of a Nail, the title of an old proverb, asks the viewer to consider the way everything is connected.

There are good pictures of the installation here and here.