Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Coming back to the Northeast

Some notes about impressions of coming back to the Northeast after over 20 years away (egads, has it been that long??). Yes, it's been a wet summer, but there have been a lot of thunderstorms, which is something that was quite rare in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, in Wagga Wagga, Australia, and Christchurch, New Zealand where I've been living since moving away for graduate school.

I've missed them!

The flashes of light and the resulting thunder bring back memories of summers past, and are a demonstration of the power and majesty of nature.

As well, we have the dancing lights of lightning bugs, which I remember chasing and collecting in glass jars when I was young. We don't have these in Australia or in New Zealand and I can't wait for my kids, aged (almost) eight and ten, to see them!