bioluminesence

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[OT from cottage renovations]

I have long been in the habit of watching carefully each year for the season's first fireflies.  here in the Grove we haven't yet had a long enough run of hot and humid days to bring them out, but come they will some time really soon now. 

though the southern California family members to whom I always reported the initial sighting are no longer alive, I continue to maintain the annual vigil.  I was taken completely by surprise to spot three of them in the disturbed area to the W of the platform tracks in Baltimore's Penn Station, where the B&P helpers used to stand by on tracks since removed in case some train got stuck in the tunnel and needed a push or pull.  I watched for the duration of our stop there, looking behind for them as the train pulled S into the darkness.  on getting to the Grove while walking back from the bus stop I kept a lookout, but ours still aren't out yet.