Saturday, July 12, 2008
The trees make noises!
When I first moved to Northern Virginia back in 1996, it was late July. I noticed that the trees make really loud noises. It was the strangest thing - because in the North, our trees don't make noises. At first I thought maybe I was going crazy. Hearing things, ya' know. But then after a couple of years, I realized that it happened coming up to the hottest part of the summer every year and lasted for a few weeks through those really hot months. Eventually, someone told me that those sounds are actually the sounds of bugs who live in those trees. (Whew! I'm not actually hearing the trees make loud noises ... it's BUGS!)
Well, this morning was the first time this year that I heard those really loud sounds consistently while walking out of the house to my car. Maybe today isn't the first day of the sounds ... but it's the first day that the sound was so loud that I was conscious of it. Hmmm... I'm in the South now!
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