On Thursday night as we were walking back from the subway I saw the most amazing sight – fireflies!
A few of the big homes on our block have lovely front gardens and the fireflies looked like little drops of amber flickering in the dark. They are really beautiful and it was so dark I could only see the little flickers of light – not the rest of the insect.
When we got to our building there were some also flying around out the front and our building lights allowed me to see what the fireflies really looked like – almost little flying beetles.
You can view a composite shot of fireflies here and a nice close up here.
Fireflies are a sign of Summer and it just began here last week – it is interesting how I have grown up knowing the first day of the season to be just a the first of a month whereas here, we being Summer officially on the day of the Summer solstice and this year it was exactly 5.16pm. Now… the countdown to Autumn begins and I cannot wait!