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Cicada Summer…

Cyranny

Actually, this tittle is a pleonasm to me…

Summer is a lot of things. Mostly fun and pleasant things. It’s the best time of year to do outdoors activities, (unless you are into skiing, or ice skating, LOL) the days are long, the sun is warm. The BBQs are hot hot hot on every balcony… Good times!

But for me, the real cue to summer is that moment when the cicadas start singing. If you’ve never heard cicadas (and listened to the video I linked in, at the end of this post), you might wonder what it is that I like so much about the strange hissing sound. It is not a really pleasant sound, indeed, but when a thousand cicadas do it together, it is just magical.

Yes, they are terribly loud. But I can’t get tired of sitting outside listening to the singing cicadas. Probably because I grew up with that sound announcing a summer of fun. Probably because they’ve always been there to remind us that it was the most comfortable time of year…  And their song relaxes me, no matter how upset or tired I am.

Even if we can hear them well, it is not often that we get to see them…  So I was pretty excited when I came across this little fellow yesterday night, at the end of my shift, at midnight!

 

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I hate using a flash for my evening pictures, because I just love natural light (or lack of)… But this was such an unexpected encounter, that I turned it on for only one picture! I didn’t want to scare it, or hurt this little guy’s eyes! Surprisingly, it stood pretty still, and I got both pictures and let it continue living its cicada life!

 

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I know that most people would qualify them as ugly bugs.

I think they have something magical… They are my Summer Fairies. And during summertime, they often find themselves in my fiction stories, my anecdotes and my poetry…. Talking about that, you can catch up with one of my short fiction pieces, inspired by these strange muses; Cicada Song

 

 

24 thoughts on “Cicada Summer…”

  4. I loved reading this! Most people I’ve ever spoken to here in NJ, hate the sound of the cicada’s, I find their sound relaxing. I agree with you fully!
    Dragonflies, Fireflies, Cicada’s, and Praying Mantis’s (Oh, yeah, Crickets too) Love the Summer for these special little seasonal insects.

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    1. I’ve heard that some cities here wanted to kill cicadas because they were considered a sound nuisance!! How absurd… I can’t believe how so many people are becoming allergic to nature!! Sad thing…

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