Fireflies and blue wildflowers

[ceiling_taffi]

So, there are two fantastic summer similarities between here and that midwestern state we previously occupied: fireflies, and these splendidly periwinkly-blue wildflowers (although the specific flowers I love aren't as common here as there

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[physibeth]

If it makes you feel any better it has been pretty freaking hot here too the past few days and is not really cooling off at night like it usually does. I miss fireflies.

[ceiling_taffi]

Fireflies are awesome.

It was over 90F here outdoors on Saturday while I was canning, so I shudder to think what the temp was inside, but at least it wasn't up near 100 outside like it was a few weeks ago...

I'm sorry to hear you're all suffering, too; the nights-not-cooling-down thing is probably especially not fun if you're still loft sleeping. I hear the weather's supposed to cool down before I fly over, though. :-)

[mrs_piglit]

Fireflies are cool, but in my experience they are usually accompanied by mosquitoes. And mosquitoes are not cool, especially when one has "sweet blood." :)

[ceiling_taffi]

Admittedly, this is another problem here. However, Deep Woods Off seems to be very effective, so it's just a matter of covering oneself liberally with stinky, scary stuff before venturing outside for more than five minutes. :-)

I've met plenty of mosquitoes in the Land Where There Are No Fireflies, so while they're more frequent here than, say, at my parents' house (90% of mosquitoes were probably encountered while camping, rather than at home), I haven't been really associating them. But you're probably right. Humph.