The Front Porch Swing

[enola]

Cute, cute, cute...    

Wow! Cuteness overload!

 

[LindaB220]

We need to keep the people in NY in our thoughts......

I don't really watch TV. Why? Weather? Something bad?

 

[enola]

A gas leak caused a multi-story building to explode this morning.The building contained businesses and apartments. Two people dead and 24 or more injured. The fire is stll burning......

 

[LindaB220]

A gas leak caused a multi-story building to explode this morning.The building contained businesses and apartments. Two people dead and 24 or more injured. The fire is stll burning......

So sorry to hear that. It seems that this is the time of the year for bad leaks and fires.

 

[Lacy Blues]

Peeper frogs

 

[enola]

Thank you Lacey! Did I say tiny?

 

[Beekissed]

Oh, believe me it is a sound you will fall in love with. Just ask Bee, I am sure she will agree.

It is a different, loveable big mouth, not at all like the regular run of the mill big mouth!!!!!

Yep...that sound has become to mean more to me than mere frogs in the spring. They are the sound of hope after a long, hard winter, the end of a tough school year, and the sound of new life beginning once again. They herald fresh night air, spring blossoms scenting the night, good talks out on a darkened porch with those you love as you make plans for spring and summer. Spring peepers are a song about everything that is good in life after you've been through a lot of hard times that seemed to last forever.

They bring back memories of playing outside with the neighbor kids until your mom has to shout at you~"If I have to yell at you again, it will be the last time...come in NOW!" Of pick up softball/kickball/football games out in the dust until you are grimy tired but still too excited to go to sleep at night, so you keep talking long after the lights have went out and your parents threaten you to "stop talking!".

It's flashlight tag, king of the hill, the taste of Whistle brand pop, secret centers and fishing until dark and beyond. It's about merthiolate painted on a scraped knee that stings so bad that your mom has to blow on it, of best friends and bicycle rides, school's out and summer stretches like eternity in front of you. It's tents made of old blankets in the side yard and giggles in the dark as each one tries to stay awake the longest on a sleep over. They are poly-wogs in a jar, nightcrawlers in an old coffee can, the very first lightning bugs rising out of the grass and the smell of polecat in the early morning dew.

It's kittens in the hay shed, freshly laid eggs in a nest, little biddies running around and the beginning of a new garden. Everything you can imagine that is good and life affirming, peepers embody it.

They aren't just frogs, they are harbingers of spring and all the goodness you've ever known during those seasons.

Peeper frogs

When I was a little girl I was standing out by our car one day on a clear, sunny day with blue sky...not a rain cloud in the sky...and spring peepers started raining out of the sky and bouncing off the car, the pavement, my arms and hair. Hundreds upon hundreds of tiny, tiny frogs came showering down out of a clear, blue sky! I'll never forget that!

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Tiny!!!!!!!!!

I don't know if our loud frogs are so tiny. But maybe I only ever see the bigger ones.

 

[enola]

Bee, I could not have said it better!

 

[enola]

Does any body here know what a firefly lantern is?

Another vivid summer child hood memory.