>On Fri, 16 May 2008 Pitui Terrington wrote:
>

>> For the first time in just over two years, I shall be sleeping with
>> the bedroom window open. With nothing to hear but birds, the occasional
>> cow, and the smell of about a dozen 50 year old lilac bushes in full
>> bloom...

>
>
>It sounds peachykeenheavenly, and I congratulate you most heartily on
>this most recent move. Sounds like a good one.
>
>Darla
>Nothing to hear but the call of loons and the skree-skree of peepers
>in the dark spring night. The birds start at 4AM. My lilac bushes
>are not so old, but very fragrant nonetheless. Sometimes a dog barks
>in the distance, or a cat screams for no apparent reason.
>
>And three days ago I saw a pileated woodpecker (the Woody Woodpecker
>kind) pounding the bark off one of our birch trees!

>Still, we're only 20 minutes from the heart of town.
>
>Halifax: A little city in the middle of a farm.