All quiet.

[Hellequin]

HeathBar, I thought the exact same thing when I read this. After 9/11/01 the skys were silent for a while. I am in a town with a large air force base and an international airport, so the quiet was very noticable. Very eerie!

And here! I was out scouting a new hunting area on 9/12/01 and even though it's tallgrass prarie, you can't quite ever get away from the sight and sounds of planes. Well that day was truly eerie with the lack of air traffic. It was easy to imagine what it was like walking through the grassland 100 or so years ago. Even though the circumstances that brought about the peacfullness were tragic, it was one of the best days I've ever had out doors!

[piperdbh]

Lovely as nature's music always is, I find that the noise of human activity is part of, not separate from nature. Living where there is no human noise can be hard to get used to: no traffic, no conversation, no one else's thoughts. A person starts to roam around in in memories, in waking dreams, in inner promptings to the edge of madness or magic. And perhaps this is what gives such places their legendary specialness.

Yeah...


...ain't it nice?

[Macman]

That sounds wonderful, Jock. There's nothing like a quiet spring morning.
We used to live just across the river from Vancouver International Airport, and when we were out on the deck watching the planes come and go, the sound of a 747 taking off would blank out our conversation - the mouths would move, but there were no words!

[McClef]

Despite the peacefulness please spare a thought for the thousands of people whose plans have been ruined and those who are stranded far from home.

[BoldHighlander]

In the days following the 9/11 attacks, all air traffic in the US had been suspended. The silence, while nice, was very eerie. While the rest of the surrounding were not as peaceful as yours, I think I know what you mean.

Indeed....and I recall being outside talking to neighbors when the suspension was lifted, and when the first jet flew overhead we all looked up as if we'd never seen an aircraft ever before...

One of the things I always enjoyed about visiting my grandparents in the country, or some of those nights Civil Wr reenacting, was the peace.

You never realize how mournful a lone distant train whistle really is until you hear one late at night in the country.

[BoldHighlander]

Despite the peacefulness please spare a thought for the thousands of people whose plans have been ruined and those who are stranded far from home.

I was thinking about that when I took my wife to work early this morning & viewed the morning sky getting light behind our own (semi)dormant volcano Mt Baker.

[Schiehallion]

London too is so quiet overhead... I am on a flight path for landing planes, high up, and thankfully high in the sky, but 1 a minute fly over at certain times of the late afternoon... It's very quiet at present! Love it!

[Bugbear]

Lovely as nature's music always is, I find that the noise of human activity is part of, not separate from nature. Living where there is no human noise can be hard to get used to: no traffic, no conversation, no one else's thoughts. A person starts to roam around in in memories, in waking dreams, in inner promptings to the edge of madness or magic. And perhaps this is what gives such places their legendary specialness.

Agreed, and it is interesting that the only world, each of us can know, is the one our brain is recreating along with our conscious sense of self and being that observes this recreated world.

That being said, my world is under the flight pattern of quite a few aircraft, and close to a newly opened freeway loop, plopped down through the desert; it's all blended together with the birds, crickets, bats, and bees...

Hopefully these eruptions will not bring the long winter.

[Bigkahuna]

What did he say???????

[Bugbear]

What did he say???????

Nothing... Don't worry about it.