Fireflies! Lightning Bugs!

"If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance."

---Bern Williams 

  

  It's time for fireflies, one of the joys of country life. Those entrancing, glimmering and rising, 

tiny whitish lights that fill the early summer sky. Before life in Hopalong Hollow, I had never seen these delightful little summer lights, Oh how much I missed!

    From our porch swing we are mesmerized and hypnotized by these little creatures.They rise and flicker for just a second..... hundreds of little lights against the black silhouette of pines and cedars. Here is a courtship dance in the summer sky for all to see. I can almost hear the song," Isn't it Romantic"playing in the background..... Oh wait, that IS the Boogie Woogie Bunny Band making music neath the stars and the amorous little bugs are taking full advantage of the mood. 

Sometimes a lone bug loses his way and flies into the bedroom window where his little light appears as more greenish than white. In which case, I will catch him and head him in the right direction. Poor little guy! Sometimes, it gets confusing when you are looking for your own true love, even in the bug world..