Singing bugs

No, our house hasn't been infested. I took the boys to The Bug Opera. It was created to introduce children, and their parents, to opera.

So we drove 45 minutes from home, across a state line, to an evening performance in an old theater built in the 1920's complete with a flashing marquee board.

A caterpillar was afraid to change into a butterfly and a mosquito didn't want to try to drink blood after watching her friend be squashed to death. There was a mambo dancing spider, groovy fireflies and a beautiful luna moth. I'm partial to the luna moth. She was a high school classmate of mine and wrote the words to the opera. And she was beautiful. My boys were losing focus when she arrived and her voice and presence brought them back.

And what did they think as we left? One guy, as he skipped out of the theater declared,

"That was a big, great show!"

Indeed.