GONE

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Sounds and sights  that won’t be heard again:

    A biplane passing  overhead–so low you can see the pilot. He’d wave at  the watchers below.

    A coal-burning locomotive blowing its whistle at a crossing and little children, with  their heads out car  windows, making the blow your  horn  motion.

The “ogglifng” sound of the horn of an old Model T Ford,

The eight, twelve and five  o’clock whistle of Weathreford’s oil mill

The smokie  flavor of food baked  in a  wood-burning stove’s oven.

  Also gone but hopefully, somewhere near-by:

The call of a Whippoorwill

 Hoot owl or screech owl’s lonely hoot

Painted Bunting

   

These  birds do not like populated areas so  when people  move in, the birds  move  out to the  near-by  county.

Where will  they go  next as businesses and apartments follow?  New  homes are  filling scenic  areas.  Housing developments a taking farm land. No  farms, no  food, especially the fresh unadulterated

 vegetables  from the truck  farmer.

So what do we do?  Limit expansion?

Thoubling thoueghts  a dreary day–all because of a random thought about missing the night-time call of a whippoorwill. It doesn’t   take much to  set me   off!

Dannie