Fireflies!!

Guess what I saw today?? Fireflies! Well, we actually saw them Monday night, but I saw them again tonight. There is a hidden away park (well it's really a parking lot) that we like to go to and let the dogs run around. Cyrus and I usually throw sticks, play catch, or whatever. Its like a little piece of nature right in the middle of Fort Worth. Anyway, Monday night as it got dark, we caught a glimpse of a firefly, and then we realized there were a bunch of them.

We both realized we hadn't seen fireflies in many many years. It reminded me of when I was little and we would go out to my Grandma Sicking's farm in Muenster every Friday to take care of her when she was sick. But even before that, we would go visit and sometimes spend the night. Night time on a farm in the country is about the most amazing thing in the world. In addition to fireflies there are all the smells of "farm" life (hay, horses, cows, dirt, fresh air). We would wait until dark, then go out and hunt for fireflies. They are easy to catch. We would catch them in a jar, poke holes in the top for "air" and sleep with the jar in our room that night. We literally used them in place of a nightlight! Cyrus said he did the same thing when he was younger on his grandparents' farm. Life was so good back then!

Here is a pic of a small piece of the park - it's so wide open.