Fireflies
Personal memory by Melissa Jenks
1984 CE • Cascade, MI, USA
I remember when my grandparents' yard was full of fireflies, the entire nighttime grass full of them. Blinking. We would catch them in jars. Now, in the summer, I look out at our yard and I'm lucky to see one firefly blinking. I point it out to my daughter. I'm glad she gets to see one. But there aren't as many as there used to be. I wonder if there will be any for her children to see.
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