
Here’s Piper – the little pip. Sort of reminds me of me when I was a little girl. Wild and mischievous.

Last Thursday and Friday I spent long hours at Pawlings Farm where truly hundreds of American toads were doing their annual mating dance in the vernal pools. There were not nearly as many as in years past, but still there were hundreds. I told my daughter- in- law that she and her daughter Piper…