Valley Mills Progress (Valley Mills, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 1, 2013 Page: 3 of 8
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VALLEY MILLS PROGRESS
PAGE THREE
AUGUST 1,2013
Valley Mills band director Jon Schriver drills band members on how to control how they
play their instruments
THE MIGHTY EAGLE BAND drumline
members Melissa Aleman, Freshman
Drumline Sydney Montgomery Junior Drum
Captain/Band President, Kevin Hargrove,
Sophomore Drumline and Jef frey Wood
Sophomore Drumline/Band Treasurer (behind the
bass drum) practice outside the band hall on Monday
Senior Drum Major Ashly King takes
marching direction from band director
Jon Schriver during Band Camp
Some of the more intriguing names that the Pilgrims gave to their
babies included Ashes, Dust, Earth, Delivery, Increase and Weep-
not.
If there is one thing worse than
being an ugly duckling in a house
of swans, it's having the swans
pretend there's no difference.
- Teena Booth
It is not only fine feathers that
make fine birds.
- Aesop
Canyon's Rim
By Donna Veteto
Some of the baby leopard frogs living and hunting in the
wading pool at Canyon's Rim
It's really cool out in my yard right
now. There are seven or more baby
frogs in the wading pool I keep filled
so everybody has water.
The little frogs fill the night with
such a pretty song, I've been standing
outside under the big moon just
listening to that chorus, and they
blend in so well with the cicadas that
it's just beautiful!
One day I was out there and heard
a splash in the little pool. Because of
the heat and sunlight, there's been a
layer of moss in the little pool almost
all summer.
The splash got my attention so I
went to investigate. Staring up at me
were seven pairs of eyes protruding
just above the layer of moss!
They all just floated there watching
me watch them. It was so cool, I
couldn't wait to get the camera. I got
it and started taking pictures of them.
Well, unfortunately, they are really
hard to see floating under the moss.
I was thrilled a few days later when
they were all on the rocks I keep in
that pool so the bees don't drown.
They were sunning themselves and
were all piled up on the rocks and
didn't mind me walking all around
them.
They are as bad as the deer about
not being afraid of me. I walked right
up to the pool and they sat still, letting
me watch them and take their picture.
I decided to learn a little bit about
these pretty little frogs.
They are leopard frogs. According
to Wikipedia, that can mean they are
any of about 14 species of frog within
the true frog genus, Rana.
I love that word. It is Spanish for
frog and there's a cool little rhyme I
learned long ago while studying
Spanish.
"Sana, sana, colita de rana," which
means heal, heal little frog tail. It is
something traditionally said to
children when they got hurt.
Frogs have always been one of my
favorite amphibians. I have chased
thousands of baby frogs on the river
over the years and have caught some
of them.
We always called them bullfrogs. I
don't know if the bullfrog is larger
than the leopard frog or not.
The leopard frog, according to
National Geographic, is named for
the spots on its back and legs.
That source says the they are
greenish-brown with a pearly white
underside and light-colored ridges on
either side of their backs.
That's what my little pool creatures
look like.
These little frogs live in the wading
pool with hundreds of honeybees and
almost that many wasps and
yellowjackets.
I have the rocks in the pool so the
honeybees can reach water without
falling in. They don't seem to have
the ability of wasps to not break the
surface tension of the water.
The bees line up along the rocks at
the water line and drink.
Wasps and yellowjackets just light
on the surface and float around.
With the moss, it's easier for the
bees to get water without drowning,
but the rocks are there for the bees.
And now, for the little frogs.
NatGeo also says that leopard frogs
will eat anything that crosses their
path and will fit in their mouths.
It says they eat flies, worms, beetles
and even smaller frogs, their own
species. Ick!
I haven't seen them eat bees or
wasps. Or other frogs.
In fact, I haven't seen them eat
anything, but the mosquitoes aren't
bad out there by the little pool.
I wonder about how they got in the
pool.
I remember when I was a kid
bringing home clusters of gelatinous
frog eggs and putting them in a gallon
jar of water or, I believe, we had an
old dishpan.
I would let those eggs hatch and
then let the tadpoles grow into frogs.
I loved that, watching them change
from eggs to frogs. What a cool
process.
I also checked out bullfrogs,
because that's what Daddy always
called the river frogs.
Wikipedia says that the bullfrog has
a call that sounds like the roar of a
bull. Funny, but I don't remember that
sound. I remember it being loud out
there, but I don't remember hearing
bulls on the river at night. I do
remember the sweet songs of the
frogs.
Although, if we heard bullfrogs at
night when we ran trotlines, I'm sure
I thought it was Bigfoot or some
monster coming to get us.
What else would be out there in the
dark on the river? Not frogs, certainly.
I loved the tadpoles best. What a
cute little thing, swimming around
with nothing to do but absorb its tail
and grow legs.
And when those legs sprouted, I
thought that was about the coolest
thing in the world! Who wouldn't?
Anyway, I'm getting to experience
that all over again, right in my front
yard.
The little frogs will have water as
long as I can put it out there, although
that last rain filled the pool to the lip.
I'm happy I can go outside and
listen to the baby leopard frogs sing
along with the night and for now, I
have a little slice of a moon, too.
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Grear, Mark. Valley Mills Progress (Valley Mills, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 1, 2013, newspaper, August 1, 2013; Valley Mills, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth756758/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.