After many attempts this was the closest to capturing the fireflies on camera tonight. You should've seen them! I would like to say there were thousands out tonight! Starting with the drive home after this long week, but the weeks seem longer nowadays for some reason.
They were like guiding me home, the drive that has been the same drive home for the past five years, only tonight they were out in full force. Like saying, "This way...lets play when you get home! We'll show you the way!"
They seem to know their home is offset from the house, out in the peace near ponds and away from the highway and house and dogs and cats. Playfully dancing to the music of crickets and bullfrogs and the nighttime birds. The warm, damp weather along with the weather settling down now ("It's safe to come out guys! The wind has stopped so lets party!")
It's like they made their own bonfire out of themselves out in the woods. Dancing, flying, swirling, scattering light in the most amazing episode of light display, showing off talents of creativity only a tribe of beings in the wild can produce. To be a spectator of the show was an honor tonight. To be included and even have the most curious of them barely creep close, for a glimpse of ME! While I tried so hard to record a glimpse of THEM to show the world! One picture out of all of them barely brushed the scene I saw tonight. It will have to do.
My own vision of the scene, even though it was so much more detailed than yours, doesn't do justice to the incredible display of light interacting with light. I couldn't see the process of interaction that was made between one light and another, and another, and another... The lights dancing over their own reflections on the ponds, trading partners to continue the dance until the right one came along...
Bullfrogs singing a baritone sound while crickets and whipporwils sing the high notes. The dance will continue until sunrise for sure. What a party! I would sleep in the hammock on the patio and listen to it all night if I weren't so tired.
It was enough to watch fireflies dance on a Saturday night to the best music of all!
I'm sure owls are watching from a distance.
G'night all! Hope there's lots of sweet dreams involved!
Sandy
Hi Sandy!
ReplyDeleteDifficult to see the fireflies in the photograph, but you've given such a detailed description of them, that I can definitely see them clearly in my mind's eye!
I'm sure there's many a bonnie sight to be seen out there amongst nature and all the wild life...I spent many a year to-ing and fro-ing to Shetland Island, which is also rich in wildlife and will always treasure some of the wonders of nature witnessed there.
...sleeping in a hammock on the patio sounds like a pretty cool idea for those warm, summer evenings.
Hope things are well with you...tak' care and enjoy your week ahead!