Fireflies

Fireflies, lightning bugs, whatever you call them, we hit the jackpot this year.

We noticed there appeared to be an abundance of the bugs in the spring before they started lighting up, they were everywhere, harmless but everywhere nonetheless, we'd never seen them in these quantities before, conditions must have been perfect.

Tonight Rose had the boys call me from the living room to see.  The entire back field looked like a concert with tens of thousands of lighters flickering.  I couldn't believe there were so many lighting up, I did notice they were simply flashing in the grass not flying lit up.  Rose said earlier she'd seen them flying up and down in some mating ritual.

I hope they'll continue all summer sure makes the field interesting to look at in the evening.