Firefly Summers
Personal memory by Lee Ann Freitas
1979 CE • Rhode Island, USA
I remember vast numbers of fireflies creating brilliant flashes of mysterious light during the warm months of July and August. I really didn't understand the mystery of the firefly and how they emitted that miraculous flash, I just knew it was really cool and hearkened the ease of summer nights, late swims in the ocean, and all that was glorious of summer. There was no light pollution to compete with the mini light displays, no leaf blowers diminishing their overwintering larvae, just the beauty of the flash, flash, flash of yellow glows across the night sky.
Image: Simon Speich, www.speich.net, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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