Spring is officially here....
- To: "'Perennials'" , "'Cathy (New York)'"
- Subject: Spring is officially here....
- From: P* S*
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:19:20 -0800
If you want to know when spring has "really" arrived in Milwaukie, Oregon,
you don't listen to the weatherman, or the USDA, or the Farmer's Almanac, or
any well-known gardening bible, or the local extension service.
You listen to the tree frogs.
Most of Milwaukie is either riverfront, one-time flood plain, wetland, or
filled-in wetland. Needless to say, we have huge populations of ducks,
geese, other aquatic-based life..... and frogs, esp. tree frogs.
I've lived in Milwaukie since 1978, and every year, usually during March,
the tree frogs herald the onset of spring by singing. What's miraculous to
me is that they all start singing on the same night. One night.....
nothing. The next night, the song is so loud that you can hear it inside
your house, even with windows closed.
When the tree frogs sing, it means that spring has come to Milwaukie, that
there will be no more frosts, and that we can let the planting begin. In
all the time I've heard them, they've never been wrong, and conversations
with several long-term Milwaukie residents have established the tree frog's
reliability back at least into the 20s.
Welcome, spring!
Sue P.
"The greater your rapport with the vehicle, the greater your joy."
(Chris gives Marilyn a driving lesson, 4.1)
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