lighten bugs

When I was just a small child. I member going to the empty lot in the neighborhood and chasing lighten bugs. It was quite a treat to run around after dark and watch the lighten bugs flitter a round. Blinking their lights for all to see. It was hard to catch them but when we did we put them in ajar. We watched them light up the sky then we would catch them and make lanterns out of them. Blinking on and off. What a site we would smear them on our bodies and play hide and seek in the lot. Or we would play Indians and it would be our war paint. Poor little lighten bugs. I am sure they didn’t know what a fate they would meet in the hands of us kids. Back them it was all in fun to amuse us kids. Then we would go home and watch June bugs float in the air but I was always scared of them and the buzz they made. My mom seamed to like them because she named my little sister after them her middle name is June bug. Oh them were the days .I sure would love to be a kid again.