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Teenuh's avatar

My absolute favorite time in the spring. When everything is coming back to life after the dark, dreary snow filled days and nights of winter. I love hearing them everywhere, on walks, in my yards, when I’m randomly out shopping. It’s so good.

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Angella Stimson's avatar

So wonderful! We are too far from water to get anything like this! So very much a sign of spring!

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Margo_Zoe's avatar

What a wonderful evening chorus. I hope it is never shrill enough to crack your pretty candle holder.

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Megan Fortin's avatar

Oh that’s so cool! Every once in a while we can hear some frogs off in the distance. At my old house they would show up a few times a year and always startled me when I would step outside.

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Elizabeth Ann's avatar

I love that summer song! I heard peepers a few weeks ago and I couldn’t believe how early it seemed!

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Mary Thompson's avatar

I love the peepers. I could listen to them all night long. If you listen closely, you might hear a low pitched gentle trilling sound. Those are common toads singing, a very soothing sound.💖😌🐸

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Ceci Brandt's avatar

Yes, I love this ode to Spring! 🙏🏼❤️thank you Clara!

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Cathy's avatar

I love peepers. But I also love candles--is that a Fostoria fairy light?

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Clara Parkes's avatar

No, it's an old cut glass vase that belonged to my great grandparents. I'm not sure they ever put candles in it, but I do. 😊

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Franne's avatar

Wow--they do sound like sleigh bells! How magical. As is your photo! Beautiful, beautiful.

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Mary McNally's avatar

Thank you, Clara, I went to bed later than I normally do, even though I’m a night owl. I kept clicking on the picture waiting for the sound to start. Wahh.. Finally realized that the link was above the picture. Loved the candle and the peepers mingling with my neighborhood birds. My windows have been open all week. Hit the low 80s in Michigan! Winter isn’t done with us yet. Possible rain snow mix on Monday. I’m soaking in the fresh air!

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Melissa Weaver Dunning's avatar

We do miss the cow pond at our old house, with the annual choruses! One spring our son brought a peeper into the house and put it in a small fish tank on the kitchen table. At dusk it began to sing and it was incredibly loud - as if the tiny frog were playing out house, like a string bass.

We all said - nature belongs outdoors!!!

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Mary Thompson's avatar

They are tiny frogs but they can sing very loud.

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Cathy's avatar

Lovely

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Dorothy Van Daele's avatar

Trumpet of the Swan! Such a spirit lifter!

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Jennifer Lindberg's avatar

How magical!! And I think I may need to reread that book!!!

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Clara Parkes's avatar

We should have a swanalong!

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JoAnn's avatar

I hadn’t thought of sleigh bells until you described it. Lovely! Stunning bowl!

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Cheryl G's avatar

Oh, the joy of it!

We were standing out on our porch last night listening to their "Ode To Joy". They were joined by the trilling of the toads, making for a full and beautiful chorus. My husband said, "this is the sound of life".

E.B. White quote is spot on, and why we love this time of year.

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Mary Thompson's avatar

I love trilling of the toads too!

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