For as long as I can remember, I always knew that summer had finally arrived with the lightening bugs showed up. For the first couple nights, there were only one or two, but very quickly the yard would be filled with them every night at dusk. I remember how much fun it was to run around the yard catching them and placing them "safely" in an old jar.
The lightening bugs seemed to show up early this year. Probably because Maryland doesn't observe spring as an official season, preferring instead to go straight from winter to summer. Regardless of timing, they still seemed to have peaked in the very middle of summer. Tonight, they were everywhere. Fields already illuminated by the light of the full moon in a clear sky, twinkled with their little fluorescent strobes.
I was able to see this tonight because I was driving to an emergency; one that I already knew was not going to end well. The living postcard in front of me as I raced down the country roads made me nostalgic for days gone by. A time when life wasn't anymore complicated than finding an old jar, and chasing the lightening bugs.
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