Month: May 2006

Not enough roses

The sweet, heavy fragrance of the early wild rose blossoms can’t cover the nasty odor from Bebe’s most recent skunk encounter. She tried rubbing it off in the grass, rolling in the straw, and rolling in the creek....

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Spring peeper!

Technically it’s a gray treefrog, Missouri’s most common species of treefrog. I tracked it by sound to this perch on the rip of our above-ground pool. Since it sounded more like “a birdlike, musical...

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