From: cbertsch	Date: July 7th, 2012 03:56 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Thank you! I had to play around quite a bit with exposures. It wasn't until the first light of dawn was starting to seep around the horizon in the east that I could get the right look.

	From: cbertsch	Date: July 8th, 2012 11:57 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Alas, no. I don't think they are found very far west of the Mississippi. I was in Maryland very briefly at the end of June dealing with a situation at my parents' house, which is where I took this. They are so amazing!

	From: cbertsch	Date: July 8th, 2012 11:56 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

I've heard that they're scarcer now, but my parents' woods-edged backyard was full of them. There are few things better in the world!

	From: cbertsch	Date: July 8th, 2012 11:55 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Me too. It's not like I'd forgotten about their existence -- I made a point of introducing my daughter to them on East Coast visits back in 2005 and 2006 -- but my breath was still taken away when I wandered outside at my parents' house in Maryland, amid a very short and stressful stay, to see the glowing lights.