Afer reading Nilesh's post about the monsoon, I thought of sharing our life over here in spring and summer.
Over here in New Jersey we get complete 4 seasons ie Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. Spring starts in mid March.
Right now we are enjoying spring. But the weather is warming up and we know that the summer is just around the corner. Everybody waits for the summer time. The schools are closed in 2nd or 3rd week of June and reopens in Fall on 2nd week of September.
Last week we cleaned our backyard deck and the barbeque grill. Its the grill time. Anything and everything edible on the grill. We are going to have our first barbeque party with our friends next week.
We have visitors like Deer and Squirrel coming over in our back yard.
There are some seasonal visitors during this time. One of them is rabbit. Rabbit appears during March/April and is with us all the time till Sept. Sometime he comes and eats our flowers. But he is very adorable.
We also see lot of colorful birds like Robin, Humming Bird, Blue Jays etc. One vistor I would especially like to mention here is the firefly or Kaajwa. I never saw one in Mumbai ( they could be found in suburbs or villages). The firefly are spotted in thousands during the twilight and it looks OMG so out of this world. They appear in Mid June and are here up to August. Few years back Raj stepped out of the house and carried a glass bottle with him. He then caught one of them and got home. We switched out the light and lo what a beautiful thing it was, giving its own light.
Well, We hope to have great summer and wish you all enjoy the monsoon.
Sounds like a fairy tale .will Love to experienc it too.As you said we don't see kaajwa in Mumbai. Last year we saw them in Munnar. Actually i was not aware of them. Sunil Showed them to us. Shweta will also remember.We also experienced them in dark. They have terrific light of their own.
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