crickets and others

Last year around this time I was terribly unhappy to not hear any field crickets. I remember walking around the block and hearing only one, chirping away in a lonesome solo.

One friend on LJ suggested that maybe they come out later--and indeed, later last year I did hear a fuller chorus of them, and I told myself that maybe I'd only imagined hearing them all summer long all my life--but no; I was right to remember hearing them, because this year I hear them in full strength--now, in June. It mak...