Blog Assignment #2 "What I Hear"

My shoes scrap against the concert sidewalk as I walk along. I can hear myself breathing. Wind is blowing hard past my ears, my coat and the trees around me. It sounds like wind blowing against a microphone. Cars are driving by, engines slowing before coming back to life again and the engine sound getting lower signaling a cross walk nearby. People are shouting and the sound of sizzling and metal against metal means I am where the food carts and the entrance to the park are. The clopping sound of horseshoes against asphalt before the sound becomes sharper from contact on cobblestones near and the shouts of the vendors and carriage riders gets closer. I hear bicycles pass by sounding like mosquitoes buzzing passed as their bells ring. The sound of splashing water is in the distance. I hear quacking and screaming of ducks and geese and the sound of kids playing and throwing food into the water. It is mostly silent, a sign of winter. Normally you cannot hear yourself think here during warmer weather. There is the hollow sound of banging against metal far off. There are kids playing in the playground on the slide. They had to have hit the slide hard with something with how far away the playground is. The siren of a police car is coming from the street outside the park. People are yelling for people to move and the noise hurts my ears and makes them ring before it drives off.