May 27: Ripe tomato and fireflies
May. 27th, 2010 10:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neverspentOne of my patio tomatoes is ripening!
Every year, my dad has a friendly competition with one of the nurses at the hospital to see who can grow the first ripe tomato. I don't have a competition, but I'm always very pleased if I get to eat one of my tomatoes by my birthday in the middle of June.
A summer first I noticed yesterday: lightning bugs. I can never decide which I'm more comfortable calling them: fireflies or lightning bugs. "Firefly" is prettier, flows better. But "lightning bug" is folksy and has a kind of drama, and I think it's what we usually called them when we were children.
Every year, my dad has a friendly competition with one of the nurses at the hospital to see who can grow the first ripe tomato. I don't have a competition, but I'm always very pleased if I get to eat one of my tomatoes by my birthday in the middle of June.
A summer first I noticed yesterday: lightning bugs. I can never decide which I'm more comfortable calling them: fireflies or lightning bugs. "Firefly" is prettier, flows better. But "lightning bug" is folksy and has a kind of drama, and I think it's what we usually called them when we were children.