cicada.

I love the West Coast.  I think the East Coast just got an ice storm  Today it's sunny, cloudless, and generally beautiful.  I might need a light sweater.

That being said- I miss the East.  So much so that I watched a Planet Earth that featured the Cicada invasion with longing.  I watched the cardinals, turtles, and gray squirrels eating cicadas and thought "I miss Maryland."  I found myself reminiscing about swatting cicadas off of peoples backs as they came into my workplace.  I thought of all the cicada shells that I pulled off trees.  I thought about how much I love squirrels.  I thought about selling people plastic netting to keep their decorative ponds from being clogged with cicada carcasses.

It's amazing what you miss when you're gone.  Though mostly I just missed the squirrels... not the cicadas.