Soundscape

Karen of Not Native Fruit has come up with ten sounds from her immediate surroundings.

Here are some from here, at this time of year:

1) Crickets. Fewer than other years, because they’ve disced the field recently. At least two species, as I’m hearing them now.

2) A train across the field: a freight, a commuter, a first-class freight. They all sound different, have different whistles.

3) Coyotes howling, almost always at the train, always at night.

4) The sound of lightly pouring water. This is the cats’ drinking fountain.

5) The screech of a barn owl, eerie, ghoulish. It makes my heart sing every time, though.

6) The clatter of a trailer-truck laden with tomatoes as it gears down to get over the tiny bridge over the creek.

7) The snuffling of a raccoon outside. He’s taken to sitting in the walnut tree.

8) The chatter of cyclists as they barrel down from the bridge, faster than the truck went up. (Both these sounds make the cats growl, or at least look.)

9) The sound of the landlord lovingly chastising his dogs.

10) The hum of the fridge, omnipresent, unoticeable till it stops.