Jacki Willard

Synchronous fireflies (Photinus carolinus)  in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The Synchronous Fireflies Of The Smokies Are A Sight Unlike Any Other

“Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.”
― E.B. White

“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to […]

“Kodachrome…
it gives us those nice, bright colors,
gives us the greens of summers,
makes ya think all the world’s a sunny day,
Oh yeah!
I’ve got a Nikon camera,
I’d love to take a photograph,
so mama […]

“Press close, bare-bosomed Night!
Press close, magnetic, nourishing Night!
Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!
Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!”
― Walt Whitman

“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle