There Be Frogs Here
We were told that “winter” here is the dry season, but during the months that are elsewhere known as winter it seemed that we had fairly regular rain, though certainly not as much as during the months that are elsewhere known as hellishly hot and humid. Perhaps high temperatures in the low 80s kept things from drying out very much so that the ubiquitous water retention ponds remained filled until this month. Since mid-April it has been very dry and increasingly hot. The ponds dried up. Perhaps this happens every year; it’s our first pass through the seasons (technically: early summer, summer, high summer, late summer). But yesterday we got a couple of good vigorous summer thunderstorms that dumped enough water on the ground to cause the spontaneous creation of approximately 2.4 billion frogs. Unfortunately, several of these frogs were created on asphalt and immediately smooshed by motor vehicles. The more fortunate frogs found themselves in the newly replenished holding ponds, now awash with upwards of three inches of water over their mucky beds. These frogs celebrated the water with a cacophony of croaks and ribbets that was almost painfully loud when I took Dusty for her morning stroll today.
May 25th, 2008 at 1:02 am
You do not tell the tale of the ones who found their way in our pool