Observation #333

First sound of cicadas at around 8:50 this evening. Just a short burst, then it was done. Heard it again the next night, similar burst. It was like someone turned on the cicada radio with the volume set too loud and then quickly turned it off.

Observation #4255

Tonight I saw my first lightning bug sighting, one little yellow green pulse right above the pitch of my roof.

Observation #444

Hello!  Summer's greetings! Well, almost!  This Wednesday is the Summer Solstice and the official first day of Summer!
With that, I herald my first sightings/sounds of my favorite bugs of summer.

On our walk this evening my family heard our first sounds of cicadas!  
Side note, at the beginning of our walk, my son said he hoped to see some owls.  We have never seen owls on our walk before, but at the last stretch of our walk we heard a Great Horned Owl hoot!  He/She even answered our return hoot!  Summer sounds abound!

My mom saw her first lightning bug on May 28.  I hardly go out at night at this point in my life and am usually so sleepy after finally getting the kids to bed that I don't even look outside.   So my first lightning bug sighting was about a week ago.

The Encantadas

Steel,

Spring!

To the jungle summer

Dreams of singing encantadas

Floating on The Encantadas

Good Sailor

Hemp rope

Striped shirt arms

Heaving, tying knots

Sail towards the Sun

Never to touch it

Only the Rays on your face

This is how it is

Spheres are fixed

Yet mobile

This is our world

So happy to feel like this summer lasted forever

It's good to know I'm still on child time

Big bird sightings

Jet black

Wings like a magic carpet

Vulture ancestor

Bluuuuuuuuuue Heron

Bluuuuuuuuuue Heron

Current pterodactyl on the scene...

driving in a bumper car, smoking a cigarette

When days last forever, hours, minutes, seconds, parsnips, radish and leek

When you need to go back to your roots

Click your heels

Nod your head

Light your sneakers on fire

Whack your feet flat on the soil

sumo style