Surf City Baby
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Before moving to Southern Maryland from Southern California, where I was born and spent the first 36 1/2 years of my life, I had never
I miss my home town, but I love living out here. It's worth the homesickness.
* seen a lightning bug
* seen the Atlantic Ocean
* driven on a carpet of tiny frogs after a hard rain (didn't like that one bit)
* been in a thunderstorm that simultaneously thrilled and scared the beejeebers out of me
* seen a box turtle
* seen a fox
* seen baseball-sized hail
* heard or seen:
** a barred (or any other) owl
** a red-shouldered hawk
** a whippoorwill
** a woodpecker--of any kind
** an indigo bunting
** a carolina wren (a pair has built a nest near our deck)
** a tufted titmouse
** a blue jay
** a blue heron
** a certain sparrow whose name I can't remember
I miss my home town, but I love living out here. It's worth the homesickness.