Today, I wandered into the far back corner of our yard to dispose of some coffee grounds and egg shells (I’m a conscientious consumer – I compost). When I got to the compost bins, I found…a frog. A big frog. What I didn’t realize at the time was that this frog had the power of the Jedi. You see, he was hiding behind a blad of grass. A blade of dead grass, that is. But because of his Jedi powers, he was invisible to predators, such as the killer lapdog, Alabaster (our cat). 
It should be noted that Alabaster routinely captures birds, snakes, frogs, lizards, mice, butterflies, dragonflies and small airplanes. Nothing escapes him. But today he was thwarted. He was completely oblivious to the frog. He was in full lapdog mode, following me around, never far from my ankles.
He stood with me during all of the photo shoot and when I tried to back up to capture a picture of him not seeing the frog, he stuck with me. I had to stretch out my right arm and aim back to get this picture.
Now, just in case you think I’m unfair, or harsh in my judgment (admittedly, it’s hard to spot the huge frog behind the blade of dead grass)…when I finally pulled the lid off of the compost bin the frog flinched, lost focus and took a hop. Alabaster was onto him immediately. “Aha! What’s this?!? A frog!!!”
(I have tried repeatedly to load the picture of Alabaster “nose on frog”, but it keeps loading sideways!).JPG?w=640)
The frog, however, immediately invoked his Jedi powers and Al was left to wonder “Where did he go????”
Apparently the frog can’t maintain The Force while hopping because Al noticed him again for his disappearing act. In this last image, Al has just looked up from sniffing where the frog was to see the frog disappearing behind the can. We’ll call this…the one that got away. 
