Fireflies

The fireflies were flashing this evening.  First, we saw them at ground level, and then as dusk descended, another species (presumably) started flashing higher up in the canopy. 

It reminded us of Maryland, where we spent many pleasant (and full of research work) summers years ago at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center on the Chesapeake Bay in Edgewater.

We were fortunate enough to stay in the house of artists for many of those years. Gifted portrait painters, they spent the summer in Provincetown, Massachusetts painting landscapes.  So we were able to rent their house near the research station for the summer, and enjoyed the fireflies, rural atmosphere, and access to DC and all of its cultural offerings, a respite from the small-town Southeast Georgia college town where we lived at the time.