Nature Sounds

Hello everybody - I write this post from a little bit of paradise.. ok, hazy paradise, but still paradise..

I am in Morro Bay, CA, for a conference at Cal Poly.  We are in a lovely little in called The Inn at Morro Bay, and this is from our deck... lovely, lovely.

That giant rock?  Well, that's an extinct volcano...  from millions and millions of years ago... 

The Inn is next to a protected wildlife area that has become a rookery - thousands of cormorants and egrets are nesting there now... the eggs are just starting to hatch...they make the most amazing racket - cooing, purring, honking, squawking - a cacophony of sound...there are nests everywhere..

So after I had drunk in all the nature sounds I could stand on our balcony, I came in, and what did I see on the nightstand beside the bed?  A sound machine that makes - you got it - 'nature sounds'... ha!!

With a little view of sunset, I bid you goodnight, I am off to sleep, perchance to dream.

Kate