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To: Ish who wrote (52789)	6/30/2000 9:12:12 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

OK then...so it's not just me... My subject bookmarks are mixed up and not in alphabetical order... And when I try to post, I keep getting a message that says, ERROR WRITING TO DATABASE... hmmmmph!!

To: Ish who wrote (52789)	6/30/2000 10:19:05 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

FIREFLIES (printed here by special request...(0: Some of this may have been posted before, but not in this way). Couldn't sleep and didn't want to lie here in the dark waiting for morning.... But it was worth getting up because When I got out to where my computer is, there was a firefly sitting in the middle of the floor in the inky blackness of the house... And it was slowly pulsing I do love fireflies... I wonder if they are everywhere? We get thousands of fireflies here some nights... I remember one night, going out into the long grass behind our house and there were so many fireflies flying back and forth on their travels across the fields That it reminded me of time-lapse photography of cities at night, with cars making light trails as they race down the freeways... Another great night...and maybe I told you about this one already... Was about 5 years ago, when Mr. Croc and I were staying at a B&B outside of Charlotte, Vermont near the Shelburne Museum... We had arrived earlier in the evening, After driving for several hours, So we tossed our bags in our room and decided to hike up to the top of Mt. Philo which is just down at the end of the road near this B&B... It was a steep walk up the switchback roads leading to the top. Probably took us an hour in the growing twilight.. There were beautiful, mature, deciduous trees all the way up... so we were sheltered in the green forest twilight under a high canopy of spreading branches... very silent. There were wild columbine and Solomon's Seal plants covering the forest floor... Delicate plants trembling slightly In the drizzle that was falling And you could taste the forest in the air as you breathed... The forest absorbed our voices... Like it was listening and taking us into it... We reached the top and looked out over the land below... It was magical... The farmland and forest of Vermont laid out to see before us in the growing darkness... Then we started down the mountain in the gloom. Walking along, talking quietly... And just then, a deer came down the mountain on its own trail. And stopped on our path just a few feet in front of us... It stood there, frozen, but seemingly unafraid... And watched us for awhile, Then gently leaped from the trail, barely making a sound as it resumed its downward path brushing through the columbines.... Just then, In the growing darkness The fireflies began to flash... dimly at first, but then more and more brilliantly As if building up into a crescendo of light. Thousands of them arcing through the dark, wet foliage all over the mountain, both uphill and down... So that it felt like we were in an immense glass jar With fireflies all around us... It was wondrous... yes... absolutely wondrous.. I was laughing with excitement It was like flying a kite.. That feeling of being so excited That you can feel your own laugh right through your whole body... And then we were down from the mountain, Walking through the warm night Back to our B&B where we went for a swim in the pool that was about 3 steps from the patio door leading from our room... The only company being a big chubby Siamese cat that decided to sleep on our bed that night...