What I saw...

[dreamflower]

Tonight the DH and I went out to Walmart, and when we got home, I saw something I'd not seen for, oh, probably 45 years: a firefly!

Wow! *sigh*

Hope we get to see some more!

Comments

[mumstheword54.livejournal.com]

EEEEeeee! Fairy lights!

I don't get to see them as often as I like, because the skeeters protect them drive me indoors after dark -- even well before dark.

EEEeee! I hope you get to see many, many more!

Yea, O-o-o-klahoma, where the fireflies shine bright on summer nights!

*erhrm*

Your icon is perfect!

*hugs, brownies, and many fireflies*

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

You didn't have them in Mississippi? We get them here in WV. I can understand why you missed them.
My father's cat saw he first one the other night. The cat was going after the cute flying bug when all of the sudden it lit up and the cat slid to a complete stop! It was the funniest thing. The bug got away clean. LOL

[isil-elensar.livejournal.com]

I've seen a few myself lately... thought they don't seem nearly as plentiful as they did when we first moved here in '89. Our backyard then turned into fairy-light central as the fireflies floated up and down and flew around. We went out to walk among them, but we didn't catch them.

it was a cool sight!

[garnet-took.livejournal.com]

They're out around here, too. I couldn't imagine not seeing fireflies, they're just a part of life in summer here.

In fact, we spent a part of last Thursday evening sitting in my best friend's backyard talking and watching the fireflies. Out other name for them is lightning bugs.

They're just about my favorite part of summer.:)

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

oh, I miss fireflies!! They were all over when I lived in Illinois but I've not seen a single one in Florida!

[shirebound]

I miss fireflies! They were such a big part of my summer joy in Pennsylvania.

[songspinner9.livejournal.com]

Cool! My actual first memory (age 1 and a half) is of looking up at a window and seeing fireflies outside - in Pittsfield, Mass. I can't wait to take my daughter there next summer and have her see them... :)

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

Oh Fireflies! Utterly unknown here, but I remember that magical moment when I saw one (in the States)

[topaztook.livejournal.com]

Wow, you hadn't seen one in that long?

I think they are decreasing in number (hmm...don't know if it's related to what's happening to the bees or not), but wow, 45 years without a sighting!

The big entertainment on summer evenings of my childhood was catching lightning bugs and keeping them for a little while in a glass peanut butter jar with holes poked in the lid. (Of course, who sees glass peanut butter jars these days, either...)

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

I've never seen one, but I would really like to. It must be a marvelous thing to see.

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

I've *never* seen a firefly. :)