Enjoying both lightning bugs, light switches

Iwas outside one night last week when it was dark and cloudy. Along the creek and by the trees, there were so many lightning bugs that it looked like Mother Nature was throwing me a private fireworks show.

I watched for several minutes, remembering the gentle nights of summer when I was a kid and the lightning bugs that would hover over the grass and the pastures in Oklahoma.

It was a thing at the t…