Crickets

I thought I was fed up with all the damn mosquitoes this wettest of recent Texas years has spawned. Then I began to think the physiological chirping crickets of my tinnitus were tuning up for barbershop harmonies. Until my old bud at KVUE, Shelton Green, wrote this piece on the latest "benefit" of all the rain: the real crickets are back, several months early. Just what we needed. What a weird year.