Original Whimsical Children's Art Print~ The Midnight Crickets by Suzanne Davis Harden

Original Whimsical Children's Art Print ~ The Midnight Crickets © Suzanne Davis Harden The Midnight Crickets Original Whimsical Art print is from a watercolor painting I made in 1998 for a children’s poem I wrote called “Summer Nights.” Summer evenings were always such a time of wonder for me as a child. When I was very young, my father would take me and one or another of my other siblings for a walk with him in the evening after dinner. In the summertime, the crickets and other night creatures would invariably be singing loudly. On cloudless nights, when the moon was high, it seemed as though there really was a little person called the man in the moon and that he was singing along with the crickets and forest creatures in the tall pines that embraced all sides of the golf course that led up to the Bay. My Dad would be quiet for a while and then he’d sing, “Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight…” Then he'd say, “Pi