Cicadas
Headwaters Sketchbook — Cicadas buzz-saw through the silence of a sweltering August mid-afternoon.
The Summer 2010 edition of the Headwaters Sketchbook, with cicadas singing on a sweltering midafternoon.
By Linda McLaren
Location: A backyard in Dufferin
Date: August 5
Time: 2pm
Weather: Hot and muggy, 30 degrees Celsius
It begins:
“The stillness which only mid-afternoon on the fourth day of a heat wave can bring is broken by the penetrating buzz of an electric saw. No, it’s really a dog-day cidada….”
Click on the image below to view Linda McLaren’s HEADWATERS SKETCHBOOK for Summer 2010.
