Fireflies

A summer evening on the deck, thinking about the lightning bugs of my youth. They made summer perfect. New Jersey had them, Texas had them, but not California or Oregon. Maybe they couldn't get over the Rockies.

As a grad student in Eugene, I brought home several jars of lightning bugs in my baggage after visiting my parents in N.J. I had one Oregon night of firefly splendor! And never saw them again.