“Climb up my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door and we’ll be friends forevermore.”
A few years back, when I was at Matt and Dawn’s house, Dawn said, “Come around to the back yard, Blanche. I want you to see this.” And there, inside her rain barrel were dozens of small, black swimming objects: tadpoles! Or polliwogs! Anyway, baby frogs.
Frogs have been very busy all over town. We hear them singing their gravelly songs. Now there’ll be a whole new crop. Good news! That means they have survived pesticides, birds, snakes, and whatever other dangers lie in wait for them and will be animated mosquito catchers. That’s a good thing.
Another great little mosquito catcher that we need more of is the dragonfly. And barn swallows. These natural predators do a whole lot more than pesticides which tend to kill butterflies, honeybees, bumblebees and birds while the mosquitoes grow immune to chemicals. When will we learn?
Anyway, I was fascinated by those little swimming pre-frogs. Soon they’ll lose their tails, grow legs, and hop off to conquer new horizons. What miracles they are! They start as one thing and become something else. God’s world as He made it, is ever fascinating, orderly, and it works! Nature has a lot of mysteries.
In Darcy and Flora’s new home on Granny Grace’s acreage, there are plenty of frogs. Also there are honeybees and katydids, lots of birds, and trees which are not pruned to look like anything but a tree. I hope you hop on over to Levi and make their acquaintance.
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No frogs around here, but we sure have a big crop of baby bunnies lately in our town!
One thing about baby bunnies–they’re cuter than baby frogs.