Showing posts with label frogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frogs. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Songs of Spring



Okay, it's Earth Day today, and while we'll be hearing about all things green, I'd like to focus on one specific green- frogs.

I miss the frogs I used to hear each time this year in our neighbor's old swimming pool, before he filled it in. I was over in Walla Walla last week, and was in a great b-b, by a pond. That night, as I was settling in, watching Dances with Stars, I heard a strange beat coming through the window. Humming really.

When I opened it up, the noise flooded in. Frogs, hundreds of them, or so it seemed, filling the room with their "come hither" chorus. I got some sound, and just tried uploading it, but I think I just managed to put it on my daughter's IPod instead.

Anyway, here's a great site to listen until I put up the real thing later today.




Friday, March 21, 2008

I Miss The Old Swimming Pool



That used to be in our neighbor's back yard.


Each year at this time, the frogs would hatch, and we'd hear their unabashed chorus of spring. A few years they filled in the pool, and no more frogs. This story reminded me of their lost paean.