When I came home from Toronto on Tuesday I was very pleased to see the tulips, primroses and assorted other spring blooms in the garden. It's an ongoing surprise here finding out what we have. But the best surprise came after sunset. The woods and marshy areas around us were alive with spring peepers. The first evening, the chorus came from the fields across the road, but by the next night, the tiny amphibians in our own back yard had taken over.