6-28-11 Pirate ships, broken bridges, fireflies and fairys

It cooled off a bit tonight so we took a walk at about 8:45. The weather has been hot for two days but really quite temperate and even pleasant before that. As we came around the corner of the pier on the Potomac by our house at 9pm, just as it was getting dark, we saw a three-masted ship at rest in the river. We suspected it was waiting to go under the Wilson Bridge, waiting for the bridge to open. The ship looked for all the world like what one thinks of as a pirate ship, complete with gun ports on the side. The bridge did start to open, the ship sailed through and the bridge started to close - a 20 minute process - but one of the ramps seemed to hang up and it looked like the operators were bouncing it to get it to come down. We thought we might be witness to the "Night the Wilson Bridge Broke" but no, they got it to work and the Beltway resumed its load roar. The fireflies were out in force as we walked home, all the way up into the tops of the trees, so the whole green belt near our house looked sparkly with little blue lights. I thought this must be where stories of fairies come from.