Sorry, I just can't resist them....however I am beginning to feel like I am in danger of becoming one....and getting awful tired of rain.
And I was saddened, although not surprised, to get the news release from Ag and Markets, that the Emerald Ash borer was recently found in NY. We love our ash trees, with their wonderful hard but light wood, their purple autumn leaves and the emphasis their very pale green leaves add to the spring canopy. I am afraid it won't be long before ours are affected.
I am old enough to remember when fountains of stately elms lined the streets of most towns offering towering arches of green beauty....and then they were gone. We have noticed though that a few juvenile elms are getting taller before they are infested and die.....there are a handful of almost full sized ones around the place now. Maybe they are developing a little resistance to Dutch Elm Disease. We can hope.
I am never tired of seeing the frogs. I am also tired of the rain and the cool weather, not good for the corn. Where were the trees infested?
ReplyDeleteI never get tired of excellent frog photos like these!
ReplyDeleteI love your frog photos :) Although we are wet, we see few frogs. Sometimes I have big toads under the barn light in the evening. They are fun to watch.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad about the trees - I too remember the elms.
More rain predicted today :(
Love these pics!
ReplyDeleteKeep the frogs coming!
ReplyDeleteNever! We're crazy about frogs!
ReplyDeleteWonderful close-up frog photos!
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear of the ash bug in your area....there are concerns about it around here, too. Dutch Elm ravaged our area, too, back in the late 60's. I can recall those towering trees lining the streets in the towns, and then they all had to be cut down. We have a maple fungus here in Iowa right now, too.
i love frogs as well! regarding the trees diseases, many thanks for linking to dutch elm disease. we have a very old and huge towering elm in the front yard which we love dearly. it looks to have the fungis this year and we are very upset. that article is very good and i am so glad you linked it! i had no clue you could inject fungicide...this gives us hope...thank you threecollie!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat frog is beautiful - as far as frogs go!
ReplyDeleteWe have lost lots of our wonderful trees in our area. The pine beatle is distroying the Lodge Pole Pines in record numbers, of which our politicians and enviromentalist groups STILL will not let them be logged, so now we will eventually have a nice little lightening storm which will get rid of ALL of the LODGE POLE PINES! Go figure.
ReplyDeleteAlso, we are experiencing 'sudden aspen dye off' for what reason no one knows.
Take away the trees and you ruin the lungs of the world.
Just take away the ruined ones and plant news one.
Oh, well, who am I.
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com/
I love frog pictures like you take. i don't get to see them this way.
ReplyDeleteMy elementary school was (and is) called Elm Park Elementary. Then it might have been called Dead Tree Elementary. So sad.
The frogs are representative of our weather. What else are you going to shoot? Besides, they're cute. :)
ReplyDeleteWe had two elms in the backyard, one of them quite large. They both died over the last couple years.
I think our woodlot over south has a lot of ash. This doesn't make me happy, but thanks for the link.
Think positive.
ReplyDeleteAnd keep the frog photos coming!
The fantastic froggie photos firmly afix focus forever. Keep 'em coming, they are extremely nice!!!!
ReplyDeletelisa, it was found in Cattaraugus County. And the weather is awful, just awful. enough already. lol
ReplyDeleteFC, thanks, I love taking them, but I don't want to bore everybody with them
Deb, raining here too. We have a lot of toads but we don't seem to see the great big ones that were around a few years ago. Just saw a cute little one yesterday though.
Life with Dogs, thanks for visiting and for taking time to comment...and thanks for your kind words as well. Oh, and I just visited your blog and will certainly be doing so again and soon. Your dog and cat "comics" had me laughing out loud!
The Wife, I will be most happy to and they are so good about posing.
Dani, I am so glad because we are too. We have who can spot 'em first competitions whenever we stop at the garden pond.
Jeanelle, I guess it is part of the price of global commerce...a price that is rarely noticed or counted. I will hate to see the ash trees go....
KK, oh, I hope you can save them! As I said, they seem to be living longer around here after most of my life only growing to maybe twenty or thirty feet before dying off. Maybe there is hope for them
SC Momma, I have been crazy about them since I was a little kid catching them at my grandma's camp. lol
Linda, I have been reading about that with the lodge poles. Seems, with the fire potential, to be insane to me. What are these people thinking?
Jan, thanks, I love taking them, but I hate to bore you....Lots of Elm Streets around here...but only small elm trees..
akagaga, I guess this has been looming on the horizon for quite a while as little pockets of borer have become big pockets and spread outward. I dread their arrival here. Hooray for free trade and all that.
Teri, I will try on both fronts.
Steve, thanks. I love taking them and as soon as the frogs have been in the garden pond for a couple of weeks they get so tame I can put the camera right up next to them and take super macro pics.