Comments on: The bottom corner

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:40:19 +0000

Brett – I can honestly say we never did any bodily harm to frogs. We had pigs and chickens to mess with.

Fred – I don’t know whty there were so many dogs running loose back then. Hunters shot them all the time. In fact, we lost a couple of our own dogs that way. So how they managed to survive on their own for any length of time is a mystery to me.

beth – Those are both fairly common ferns here. But of course we are farther south.

Richard – Well, it had its downside, too. For one, we found it very hard to fit in at school. I missed out on a lot of that early socialization stuff that you can only really learn from growing up in a neighborhood or village.

By: Richard Lawrence Cohen

Richard Lawrence Cohen — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:19:34 +0000

Makes me wish my kids had grown up that way.

By: beth

beth — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:03:40 +0000

I’d like to see your spot with the ebony spleenwort and cutleaf grape ferns – both rather rare and local around central NY, but the spots where I’ve seen them rank right up there in my special places index.

How I wish more kids had grown up this way.

By: Fred Garber

Fred Garber — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:21:30 +0000

Dave, thank you for these rememberances. I grew up in a small city so the one that resonated the most with me was the one about wild dogs. There were dogs all over the place. No leash laws back then.

By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:30:03 +0000

Great reflections, Dave. Reminded me of my brother and me in the Arkansas Ozarks when we were kids. We also seemed to spend a lot of time trying to overlap our lives with the lives of frogs–sometimes to the extreme prejudice of the frogs.