Summer night sounds
Jun. 21st, 2011 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neverspentI was out very late in the evening Saturday watering my mom's lilac bush, and I just sat down for a few minutes and listened. There are so many sounds on a summer night, you have to concentrate to hear them all.
The prettiest one was the chuck-will's widow, off in the hollow across the road. It's not a constant sound, so it's easy to pick out. The main thing, the sound that basically covers them all, is the cicadas. I could hear some in a black walnut tree ahead of me and some in the oak off to my left, almost alternating. Then they dropped out completely and only when that happened did I realize that it had only been two individual cicadas. It's amazing the decibels they reach.
Once the cicadas were quiet, I found I'd been hearing something else all along, the higher singing hum of the crickets. And every once in awhile, a puff of breeze rustling the trees.
Happy Summer!
The prettiest one was the chuck-will's widow, off in the hollow across the road. It's not a constant sound, so it's easy to pick out. The main thing, the sound that basically covers them all, is the cicadas. I could hear some in a black walnut tree ahead of me and some in the oak off to my left, almost alternating. Then they dropped out completely and only when that happened did I realize that it had only been two individual cicadas. It's amazing the decibels they reach.
Once the cicadas were quiet, I found I'd been hearing something else all along, the higher singing hum of the crickets. And every once in awhile, a puff of breeze rustling the trees.
Happy Summer!