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I miss the music


by Nanc filed under blog on June 4, 2004 04:36 PM

Okay, to most my next comment is going to seem crazy, but hear me out. (Click on the image ONLY if you want to see the real thing. Wussies, do not click.)

I miss the cicadas.

Back home (Ohio), they're going through the emergence of the 17-year cicada. We don't seem to have cicadas in Texas (at least not in Dallas). And I am truly missing this experience.

I have fond memories of cicadas; collecting the shells like great treasures as a toddler (kept in a cigar box for my friend), comically trying to walk/ride a bike/drive through throngs of cicadas, and the amazing site of our backyard after the last cycle of 17-yearers (it looked like an aeration treatment gone awry).

It's too quiet here in Texas. Sure, we have nasty, huge roach-like things, plenty of June bugs, and other nasty creepy-crawlers. But no singing cicadas. No fireflies, either. Shame 'bout those, too.

So no, I'm not crazy. Just sentimental.



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Posted by: chris on June 4, 2004 04:39 PM

Oh, just you wait, girlie! In around late July/early August, the noise will return! We don't get the 17-year variety, but here there is an annual version!

When I was a kid we used to knock the abandoned cicada shells off the patio beams and SMOOSH them with our bare feet . . . ick!


Posted by: Pamelalala on June 7, 2004 04:41 PM

And I am happy to report we have fireflies in my neighborhood!!! Not as many as I remember from when I was a kid (no age jokes, please) but I still see a few every spring!


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