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I can't wait for the many.  If I recall you are a bit further south than I am so I expect you probably have a ton by now.

I'll have to watch the blinks tonight!

posted by bel_1965 on June 15, 2006 at 1:13 PM | link to this | reply

bel
Last evening, around midnight, I went outside to get a breath of fresh air. I couldn't sleep for anything. I have six acres, and the fireflies were all over it. It was truly beautiful.

I have read that the rate of blinks per minute determines the sex. For example, males blink every 6 seconds, and females every three. I can't rememeber which is which.

posted by avant-garde on June 15, 2006 at 1:11 PM | link to this | reply

LOL, yea, like my foot! LOL

posted by shelly_b on June 15, 2006 at 10:41 AM | link to this | reply

OH NO!!!!
Well, he really should not have been in the kitchen anyway...lots of dangerous things in there LOL!

posted by bel_1965 on June 15, 2006 at 10:36 AM | link to this | reply

Bel, you're not going to believe what I did last night...
I went downstairs to lock up for the night, and went into the kitchen, I squashed the poor lightning bug....by accident of course...

posted by shelly_b on June 15, 2006 at 10:35 AM | link to this | reply

Very true Sannhet

posted by bel_1965 on June 15, 2006 at 10:17 AM | link to this | reply

Bel -
Life is always good. But for you, now it is even better!

posted by sannhet on June 15, 2006 at 10:05 AM | link to this | reply

Sophistie
I can't imagine not having them! 

posted by bel_1965 on June 15, 2006 at 8:57 AM | link to this | reply

Cringe
Without a doubt!

posted by bel_1965 on June 15, 2006 at 8:56 AM | link to this | reply

That's it isn't it? The small signs of happiness and gratitude.

posted by Cringe on June 15, 2006 at 8:39 AM | link to this | reply

Awesome About You and Husband
We used to have them in this area, yet for some reason they no longer exist.  I used to like watching them and chasing them.

posted by Dr_JPT on June 15, 2006 at 8:21 AM | link to this | reply

I keep telling Passion
Just send a disaster to Michigan!!!  The door is open here, we can sit out in the yard, build a fire, make hotdogs and smores over the fire and watch the fireflies!

posted by bel_1965 on June 15, 2006 at 6:49 AM | link to this | reply

We used to chase them as kids.

That's why they probably bring you such peaceful, calm feelings. They're associated with fun-filled childhood. We don't have a lovely place like that anymore where you can sit outside after dark and watch the fireflies and listen to the frogs.

I miss having a house out in the country. Guess I could always stroll out to Midway Road and watch the drunks at night wildly carreening down the road trying to get home without gettng a DUI.

posted by Passionflower on June 15, 2006 at 6:47 AM | link to this | reply

They are amazing to watch Rumored
I've waited a year to sit and watch them with Carl and now they are HERE!  I know it's a silly little thing but for some reason this makes me so incredibly happy!

posted by bel_1965 on June 15, 2006 at 6:30 AM | link to this | reply

fireflies are so interesting to watch...here one sec, then over.....
a distance the next sec...I used "firefly" as an online "nickname" for a couple years...:)...(not here on blogit) 

posted by Rumor on June 15, 2006 at 6:27 AM | link to this | reply

Shelly
Aren't they great!!!  turn off all the lights and he will show up LOL!

posted by bel_1965 on June 14, 2006 at 8:24 PM | link to this | reply

I had one in my kitchen tonight...i just let him fly around...don't
know where he went too...LOL

posted by shelly_b on June 14, 2006 at 8:19 PM | link to this | reply

LOL Ariala!
You took the turtles for a walk??

posted by bel_1965 on June 14, 2006 at 7:30 PM | link to this | reply

I LOVE fireflies, too...this is rather cruel, but as a child I used to
smear fireflies on my turtle's shells when I took them on night walks...it helped me keep track of them with that light on their back.

posted by Ariala on June 14, 2006 at 7:22 PM | link to this | reply