I saw the goddess this morning, and she was beautiful. It was up on the mountain, on the lip of an old volcano, where a few Pinaus Lake Ponderosa Pines have survived the Mountain Pine Beetle and are streaming with light, like this … … and not just sunlight …

… and their singing sounded like this …

And here she is, after her 13 (or 17) years as a nymph underground, just emerging from her old skin …

Cicada, Emerging, Pinaus Lake, British Columbia

… and again …

… and here’s one I found two days ago, just a few hundred yards away …

I tell you, this earth is the place for me!

Some things are worth waiting for.