Yesterday R-girl interrupted my writing trance with a sudden: “SHHHHHH! …….I hear birds….”
I had to disappoint her by revealing that she was actually hearing the online “relaxation station” I was playing on my computer, which features a subtle nature track behind the music.
Including birds that sound exactly like summer.
Perhaps it will make her feel better to know that at some point today, I literally asked myself (twice) what on earth could be making the sound of a loud tropical bird outside my window.
Yes I actually did that. And it took me more than a minute to realize that the bird was in my computer speaker, not down the block. (But those ca-caws were only coming out of the left speaker! And it sounded so real and separate from the music…!)
Anyway, for now, it looks like we’ll have to settle for piped-in bird calls and the painted iron birds that greet us in the living room.
It’s better than nothing I guess…
Here’s to our crazy spring-ish winter and the hope of a someday-summer.
xo
by julie rybarczyk
