Good morning @parus Good to see that new visitor to your garden! I am in northern Minnesota and enjoy both the local frogs and this year especially a TON of toads in the evenings! I have found our woods to be an entirely different place when I go out in the evenings after sundown with a flashlight to check out the local denizens! It is calming and a nice change of pace -- as long as I remember to put on my mosquito repellant that is! The other night I got to see a magnificent buck white tail deer pass by and hear our local barred owl.

I agree there are some days finding something positive is tough, but my daughter and I have come up with an interesting way to fight this. Each morning we begin our day exchanging a brief email in which we must find three things from our day before that made us 'happy' -- and often happy is defined by something that just made one of us smile -- or maybe not frown. It could be the morning sun lighting up some leaves, maybe seeing that froggy friend of yours, or just hearing a pretty bird. Sometimes it may be a sentence from a book or how good my peanut butter toast tasted in the morning. We are on year five of this and we found those three each and every day -- even the day her mom and my wife died -- and that was the worst day of our lives.

Keep on keeping on! I must say you are resistant to your depression as you continue to fight it -- and we all know it is no easy battle!

Love your 'secret garden' name! One of my favorite musicals and I play the soundtrack often.

Do you have any other visitors to your garden?

Strength, Peace, & Courage