Salamanders- A Roland McCray Story
10 min readOct 29, 2023
Some wildlife should stay in the wild
“Whatcha doing, Roland?”
I looked up at as Johnny came around the corner into the back yard.
“Making a backyard pond,” I replied with a laugh then dropped mom’s little garden trowel. I’d been stabbing the ground with it but only getting shallow, triable-shaped notches in the dry, packed, clay soil.