ON THE ISLAND WE SHARE embracing quirky traditions and unique creative culture offers a collective joy ride. With the wind in our hair, the thrill of living on Bainbridge is richer for its abundance of folk art and activities. The pace of our imagination is the heartbeat of Bainbridge Island.
Curbside curiosities, like rings on a tree, signal our artistic growth cycle which naturally (at least for me) calls to mind, the frog. The frog is a powerful metaphor for the cycle of life and oddly, Bainbridge Island’s favorite arboreal obsession.
If we run our fingers across the circular rings back to 1971, we can trace the moment when Bob and Ellen Green, on the precipice of adulthood, snuck into the night armed with paintbrushes and the exuberance of youth, to make two erratic glacial rocks look like a frog. As a froglet, it was simply known as the Port Madison “frog”. Cycling into adulthood it became ‘Frog Rock’. A solid, Wikipedia-worthy landmark with a pin on Google Maps…