Noise

As this blog isn’t totally about being an artist, I thought I’d talk about country life today.

This evening I was sitting on my patio listening to the sounds of the day winding down.  For those of you who live in the city, I know you think you live in a chaotic and noisy environment.  But those of us who live in the country also have the noise and chaos…just a bit different. 

This evening as I was sitting on my patio, I tried to identify all the sounds that I could.

• Crickets in the garlic chives
• Birds – chickadees, cardinals, goldfinches, titmouse, two kinds of woodpeckers, mourning doves, and even the stupid starlings in the gutters
• Peepers (frogs) in the lowlands
• Diesel engines of the train about a half mile away
• Neighbor’s son revving up his truck’s engine then taking off
• Far away highway sounds
• Jet high overhead
• Cat meowing in the shop telling me that it’s too early to be shut up for bedtime
• Wind in the trees overhead
• Bumblebees in the honeysuckle

Plenty of noise…just different.  You just have to listen.