Usually my evening computer routine is to catch up on my reading and then if time and enrgy permit, I’ll give some thought to a post. Sometimes that doesn’t pan out other times it does. Most of the time, I get up from the computer and think while doing something else. Since it has finally warmed up here, I have been doing that on the back veranda for the last couple weeks.
There are lots of sounds, sights and smells that I find comforting and/or remind me of home. The obvious one that came to mind while I was sitting on the back veranda is sitting on the back veranda. Even on a calm night like tonight there is a cool breeze back there. If it is clear I can see constellations. Over the last couple weeks I’ve been hearing the outdoors come to life: the geese, loons and mallards voices carrying across the lake; the frogs croaking at each other; the crickets; an occasional howl in the distance….
While living in Miramichi, these sounds were mostly drowned out by the sound of traffic and/or activity in the neighbourhood. It wasn’t until we were settled in here last summer that I really came to appreciate the sounds of summer. It wasn’t so much that I didn’t notice them. Rather I had mostly taken them for granted.
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