Place: Waterworld Redux?
Now granted, I only moved to DC about 18 months ago. I am aware that this city has had a rich cultural and political past. But someone would’ve told me if the bulk of NW Washington was recently sitting under five feet of water, right?
I ask this for two reasons. On my walk home from work, I have noticed that a particularly large dead frog has been drying on the sidewalk near Vermont and 10th for close to three weeks. Do big-ass frogs live in people’s yards? Do they even venture out of water or above ground in early March? Why hasn’t some enterprising possum already ate that fucker?
So the little hopper was puzzling enough, but today I was crossing the street at 14th and I and saw a big mussel shell sitting in a pile of construction sand in the gutter. So really- what’s going on here people? Is there something I should know?
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The frog could have been an American toad, but that depends on what kinda shape it was in when you found it. The mussel shell could conceivably be prehistoric. Their shells last a long time in the sand, looking almost new in very old layers of sand.
But I’d have to see both to give you a good read on them. Take a photo of the toad and show me?
Should I not be placing remains of marine life on your walking route?
my bad. great post
(dave)
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