July Nights

Fireflies scatter sparkles across the lawn. Trees stand in inky silhouette against the fading horizon touched by peach and navy. Stars poke gingerly, then boldly, in the heavenly dome overhead.

July nights -- warm with cricket creaks and the engine growls of an occasional car -- are a time to sit outside and savor the calm of the height of the summer.

Cellphone photo
Copyright 2011
Wanda Hayes Eichler