How quiet is it where you are?

[AnnieA]

Originally Posted by mainebrokerman

i live on a lake in rural maine-maine is the most forested state-over 93% trees

it is very quiet here, i hear the treefrogs, and the loons at night-, i can hear the fish jump in my living room too

I love to hear the loons. One of the most beautiful night sounds I have ever heard. I heard them the first time @ 3:00am, in a cabin on a lake in Quebec.

eta: I once spent the night in a room in St Petersburg, Fl, and the surf pounding all night kept me awake. i couldn't wait to get out of there the next morning....lol.

As a kid, we lived close to the RR, about 1/2 block. The train would go through in the night, it slowed down going through the town and as it picked up speed, it would go chug-a chug, chug-a-chug, as the steam engine picked up speed. Then they would blow the whistle and it would have that long, lonesome sound. Most of the time, we never heard it we were so used to it but, occasionally it would wake me in the night. We slept with all the windows open in the summer time so we could hear a little barn owl sometimes or a mockingbird in a tree outside of the window. Beautiful sounds and much remembered.

[ptsum]

it's so dad gum quiet out here where I'm at, that you can hear the moon pass overhead at night......

[Teddy52]

In farming country, on a hot,humid night you can hear corn growing.