Mid-May. Pond is alive with turtles and frogs. Walking, you see turtles thick all over the pond now. They have grown larger, most having 5-6 inch-long shells. They fear people and jump into the water if one comes near. They raise their heads out of the water to breathe and dive deeper when a human walks by.
Frogs provide a symphony of sound in early to late evening. Some of them sound like Spanish dancers clicking castenadas, very fast. The sound is amazingly loud. A tree frog last night climbed up the outside door frame of our house, caught the Mayfly he was after & then jumped onto the house siding, his sticky-like paws enabling him to move sideways and finally down. My camera flash caught him in the dark night before he was gone. 
As I write this, thunder rumbles in the distance.
Doctor Grandma 
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