Favorite sounds

As I mentioned in an earlier post today, the slow rumble of thunder rolled around the western sky for a half hour before it started to rain. One of my favorite sounds.

Others:

• the slow rumble of thunder rolling around the sky ahead of rain on a hot still summer day/night,
• rain,
  
• a cat's purr,
• wind rushing through a car's open windows on a warm summer day when driving fast down the highway,
• wet snow falling from the sky on a still day,
• the muffled silence after a heavy snowfall,
  
• a blizzard's roar,
• the crunch of walking on hard packed snow at -20 F,
  
• the crackle of a campfire,
• mountain stream,
  
• a coyote's howl,
• croaking frogs,
• waves hitting something; the shore, a boat, a dock, etc.
  
• a lover's contented sigh