Brood 10 Cicadas – living inside wonder!

I remember the last time brood 10 emerged — featured in the “Poem of the Season” and here Walking in Rock Creek Park yesterday I had time and space to just watch and wonder – some had just emerged from the amazing array of holes they punch in...
And for all this . . . .

And for all this . . . .

We lost my mom just before the pandemic took hold in our communities, so this spring, coinciding with the Lenten season, has been more than usual a season of loss, of grieving, of concern for so many kinds of suffering in our communities and our neighborhoods. ...