Summer Nights | Andover, MA Newborn Photographer

I love Summer. I love the heat (hubby calls me a lizard), love to swim, love ice-cream and cold watermelon on a hot day and the green everywhere. There is nothing like the sun on my skin, the feel of grass or sand under my feet, the chirping of birds and the knowing that summer is here. And when the sun is gone we are left with a cool summer night full of cricket and frog sounds under the stars.

To me summer nights have magic to them. When I was a child about 12 years old we used to camp with friends during the summer. There were several of us with tents and we’d set camp in the middle of the village on the grassy common and sleep there in our sleeping bags. We’d stay up as late as we wanted because no parents were there to check on us. We ran and played outside in the night way past midnight. We’d do a lot of mischief too. Stealing fruits from sleeping orchards and gardens, sneaking into the barn and jumping on hay, going to the cemetery at midnight pretending that we are not scared and wait, I shouldn’t tell on myself like this.

One of my favorite memories from this time is when the boys did a prank on us the girls. When my girlfriend and I went into our tent one night we felt something strange and crunchy there. We felt all around us in the dark with our hands until we found a flashlight. There were beetles in our tent. It seemed like hundreds of large beetles. They were in our sleeping bags, crawling and flying all around the tent… everywhere. We spent a long time trying to clean the tent enough to sleep in it. Still I found flattened bugs under my air mattress the next morning. I was very impressed with this little prank because I’ve never seen so many of these beetles.  They were actually pretty rare in our area. Beautiful nocturnal beetles that only come around in the summer in Europe. This beetle is called Cockchafer or a May Bug and if you are interested in seeing what it looks like click here to enjoy a Wikipedia article about it

And here is a Summer Baby. This gorgeous little guy came to see me at just 7 days new and he was just awesome to photograph. His parents are so in love with him and with each other, it was a joy to be around them while I had the privilege of capturing these memories for them and their little pride and joy.

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