Don't you wish we had an editing function on this forum? I meant to say (after "hanging in terror"), his head was through the lattice with the though--she can't see me. I'm not here! That poor little guy hasn't shown up at all today. I wondered out to the wooded area where there was a 6 ft patch of Butterfly amaryllis. Was is the critical word. All of the foliage is gone! I don't go into the trees often because mosquitoes have been such a problem, but that was a shocker!

I love Harry's happy mug shots! Sedona has a collar just like that and she LOVES to wear it. She prances around with her head and tail held high whenever she has it on. Aren't dogs the greatest? Sedona is getting white hair around her lips. I'm thinking she and Harry are the same age. She will be 6 on April 1st. I'll have to get some new pictures to post. ~Betsy

Wow GT, I didn't think Betty was a frog. I mean I thought she probably popped up in your yard just like mine did and she looks so much like my toads :) But don't tell her, might be an insult to say she looks like a toad :) On closer inspection, she is much greener than my tan toads....oops, another potential amphibian/toadian insult to Betty! Interesting link on Bullfrogs, amazing that they eat anything. It's actually good they are eating crawfish which are also now considered a pest species here in AZ. But I can see how they might put a dent in other secies that we'd like to keep around too. I suppose if you were breeding and releasing little Bettys and Bufords that wouldn't be so great for the environment. But seeing how they are your pets in your own little garden of eden, don't see how that hurts anything. Like Jim said, it's when people go releasing non-natives, spreading them around the native areas, when we get into some troubles with balance. It's much easier to control the spread of animals like frogs contained in a closed yard than controlling the spread of plants like grasses which are subject to distribution by birds and wind though. I never could get paalexan's site to come up - wonder if too many of us were trying to access it.....

We had a march & rally here on Sunday, just down the street from our church, where I had to stay late for choir rehearsal, so I missed marching w/ a contingent of church members, but Hubby showed up in time to take a bunch of photos. We then walked over to the rally @ a local downtown park. Our mayor was there, as well as some state rep.s & the chair of our county school board - who was on fire! Some of my favorite signs: We had lovely weather as well.