Drag any of these to the “Sidebar 1″ and they will show on the sidebar of your blog.

• Search places a search bar on your blog, for people to search all entries. (Tom, you had asked about this!)
• Pages lists your pages (or selected pages).
• Archives lists your past posts.
• Categories lists all categories of blog posts, if you’ve created categories for your posts.
• Calendar places a calendar on the side, with the days you posted in bold. Those days are also links to your posts.
• Subscribe2 widget allows a viewer to enter his or her email address and subscribe to your blog. Note: what shows here is different whether based on whether or not you are logged in.
• Links list the links you have entered (or selected links).

Have fun with the widgets!

Under Tools in the left hand menu, click on the “Press This” link and drag it to the bookmark toolbar of your browser. If you would like to blog about something you read on the internet, you can click the “Press This” bookmark when you’re on that page. It will begin a blog post of that page.

The Gardens Experience

We encourage visitors that wish to experience Meijer Gardens to plan at least four hours and up to eight hours to enjoy all that there is to offer. Walk the outdoor nature trails and boardwalk, study world-class sculpture within the outdoor Sculpture Park, enjoy endless hours of fun with the kids in the Children’s Garden. Visit the indoor areas including a special sculpture exhibitions in the lovely indoor galleries, see the largest tropical conservatory in the state of Michigan and gaze at exquisite arid and carnivorous plants in the Arid Garden and Carnivorous Plant House. Or, consider a special concert in our outdoor terraced Amphitheater Garden, shop in the Meijer Gardens Gift Shop and relax in the Taste of the Gardens Café. Don’t miss Michigan’s Farm Garden.

via Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.

Here’s a picture I took of my favorite sculpture from the park:

Chihuly's sculpture, called "The Sun"

Features you will use often are at the top on the left column of the admin site of the blog.

• Posts – That’s what this blogging thing is all about. Post often and post to other blogs. An NDeRC blog administrator (Tom or Pat) can give you access to post to other blogs as well as your own. When writing a post, select the options in the lower right corner if you would like your post to show on another blog.
• Links – Add links that can be available on your blogroll in the sidebar.
• Pages – Add your own page. This page does not show in the blog, but can be linked to in the sidebar. Perhaps you would like some information to always be available to your readers.
• Comments – See and edit comments people post here.

More interesting features to come!

Around May and up until today, we have billions of little tadpoles. Here’s a video from when we first sighted them.

Yesterday I took a picture of the tadpoles. They are hard to capture but I found one that didnt swim away. Also, they’re starting to have legs!

If you would like to see more information on frogs, click here: FAQs on frogs