Taceas
06-14-2004, 11:47 AM
My thoughts and observations:
I guess that humans were never meant to have the peace and serenity that a forest might normally have...if it weren't for a swimming pool.
We've only been in our new house for a couple of weeks now and are enjoying the privacy a great deal. Nothing like living in the middle of a forest to cure your aversion to society. =P
We just opened the pool that came with the house and got it all clean and devoid of tadpoles and dragonfly larvae. It seemed more a manmade pond than a swimming pool initially, what with leaves and debris and a vast organism load in the water that you'd normally find in a pond.
Until..."crrreeoook"..."creeoooook"..."chirp, chirp, chirp". Shining a flashlight around the edge of the pool yielded what seemed like an invasion force of tree frogs. With one glance you could count 10, in another 15.
But when you glance in the pool, it seems like Spring Break for all of those "twitterpated" frogs. Everywhere you looked, frog pairs clasped in amplexus doing their best to get it done before I dipped them out and carted them across the yard to the forest. I truly feel for the female frogs, having to swim with no feet webbing with a parastic male clasped around your midsection.
Once you get the beach cleared of frogs in indecent positions, you hear it once more.."creeooook" from the oak tree adjacent to the pool. Upon closer inspection you can easily count 30 or more on the branches closest to the decking. Some are clasped and quietly biding their time until I have to go to bed, and others are singing to their heart's content for a would-be mate.
And whoever said frog numbers were declining hasn't visited my house apparently. Maybe they congregate because they know that out of the thousands of tadpoles that were in the pool, only about 10 died. The rest were placed in a bucket and carted to the nearby pond, a half mile away. Maybe they're like cats, only in a reverse way. Instead of being attracted to those who despise you..they're attracted to people who'd wade in 60 degree water and dip you out by hand if need be.
Sometimes that's all it takes in this world...a caring hand and a tolerance of cold, bug infested water.
http://www.mainecoon.net/~rain/Snakes/MiscSnakes/TreeFrog1.JPG
http://www.mainecoon.net/~rain/Snakes/MiscSnakes/TreeFrog2.JPG
http://www.mainecoon.net/~rain/Snakes/MiscSnakes/TreeFrog3.JPG
http://www.mainecoon.net/~rain/Snakes/MiscSnakes/TreeFrogs1.JPG
I guess that humans were never meant to have the peace and serenity that a forest might normally have...if it weren't for a swimming pool.
We've only been in our new house for a couple of weeks now and are enjoying the privacy a great deal. Nothing like living in the middle of a forest to cure your aversion to society. =P
We just opened the pool that came with the house and got it all clean and devoid of tadpoles and dragonfly larvae. It seemed more a manmade pond than a swimming pool initially, what with leaves and debris and a vast organism load in the water that you'd normally find in a pond.
Until..."crrreeoook"..."creeoooook"..."chirp, chirp, chirp". Shining a flashlight around the edge of the pool yielded what seemed like an invasion force of tree frogs. With one glance you could count 10, in another 15.
But when you glance in the pool, it seems like Spring Break for all of those "twitterpated" frogs. Everywhere you looked, frog pairs clasped in amplexus doing their best to get it done before I dipped them out and carted them across the yard to the forest. I truly feel for the female frogs, having to swim with no feet webbing with a parastic male clasped around your midsection.
Once you get the beach cleared of frogs in indecent positions, you hear it once more.."creeooook" from the oak tree adjacent to the pool. Upon closer inspection you can easily count 30 or more on the branches closest to the decking. Some are clasped and quietly biding their time until I have to go to bed, and others are singing to their heart's content for a would-be mate.
And whoever said frog numbers were declining hasn't visited my house apparently. Maybe they congregate because they know that out of the thousands of tadpoles that were in the pool, only about 10 died. The rest were placed in a bucket and carted to the nearby pond, a half mile away. Maybe they're like cats, only in a reverse way. Instead of being attracted to those who despise you..they're attracted to people who'd wade in 60 degree water and dip you out by hand if need be.
Sometimes that's all it takes in this world...a caring hand and a tolerance of cold, bug infested water.
http://www.mainecoon.net/~rain/Snakes/MiscSnakes/TreeFrog1.JPG
http://www.mainecoon.net/~rain/Snakes/MiscSnakes/TreeFrog2.JPG
http://www.mainecoon.net/~rain/Snakes/MiscSnakes/TreeFrog3.JPG
http://www.mainecoon.net/~rain/Snakes/MiscSnakes/TreeFrogs1.JPG