Late August Nights in the Suburbs — Bugs, Highway Sounds & Seasonal Ambience

A Dying Summer’s Suburban Slumber… Ambience (pt1)Late August, overnight insects, and highway sounds; suburban ambience. The children are back to school, and Halloween has taken over entire sections of local department stores. But the pools are still open, and Labor Day is a week out. Suburbanites don’t know whether to high-five a lifeguard or put a ***** pumpkin on the front stoop. Was that a football whistle? Is white still acceptable? At night, the bugs still sing under the evergreens, made bright red, murderously red by the tall Applebees sign just a klick away. The bugs persevere, for now.(Check out our Part 2 in Ohio)