Finding a quiet place

[KellyScott]

Yesterday I'm driving home and all of a sudden I hear and feel this vibration in Frances. It's a little scary so I change lanes to pull over and see what's wrong. Well I realize it's the car behind me and it's his music.
He pulls up next to me at the next traffic light and it is so loud that his trunk lid is vibrating with the music.
I am thinking to myself …wow if that hurts my ears imagine what it is doing to them. Well after a couple of more traffic lights I get to my turn off to home. When I get home as I unload the truck I can hear one of those bullet bikes over on the next street and a siren in the distance.
Now I am in my house in the kitchen and I can hear screaming outside …..
The neighbor's children are in the pool.

So now I am thinking to myself where can I go to get some quiet?
Where are those quiet places?
Where do you go to read, study, paint or just to think where it's quiet?

I can think of two places that I have been recently that were quiet.
The Bok Tower and gardens in Lake Wales, FL






And the beach at Talbot island state park.



So I am wondering…
Is it quiet where you live?
Do you have children?
Do you have a place that you can go to have your quiet time?

Kelly

[judih]

absolutely.
i walk home from school and my route takes me past the neighbouring kibbutz's fields and down the road towards our own fields.
At a certain point, it's rolling landscape of orchards, brown or shades of green patches of crops at various stages of growth, with huge blue sky above and the occasional sounds of birds.

It's quiet. It's heaven. It's what life is for.
And at the same time the terrain provides sensory input for my needy feet. Give me earth to make everything absolutely the way it feeds me.

those who overflow their minds with continuous high volume don't realize the damage they're doing to their environment and their own physical balance.

Without a nearby field or orchard, i'd have to go search for one.

[firsty]

i go to my laughing place.

[Arcadia]

my favourites places for reading, study or do mental wandering are both quiet and not so quiet...
quiet: my home, the riverside, the bus at 7 am
not so quiet: bares, the bus at 1 pm
I don't like to read or study at local libraries, I use to feel claustrophobic in rooms without windows.

[whimsicaldeb]

Where do you go to read, study, paint or just to think where it's quiet?

So I am wondering…
Is it quiet where you live?
Do you have children?
Do you have a place that you can go to have your quiet time?

I'm lucky, my home and neighborhood is quiet in the mornings, however by the afternoons it's can be as noisy as your own.

I have one child, a son, 15 who also doesn't like the loud thumping music. He prefers jazz and classical because he plays jazz and classical (alto sax).

And my favorite local place to go ... to get away... is any place in
Briones Regional Park


Image from: http://andeys.com

Excerpt from:
http://www.ebparks.org/parks/briones.htm

With its rolling, grassy hills and secluded, shady canyons, Briones is a secret wilderness surrounded by the towns of central Contra Costa County. Although the park is close to Lafayette, Walnut Creek, Pleasant Hill, Concord, and Martinez, there are peaks within it from which you can see only park and watershed lands for miles in every direction.

From Briones Peak, the highest point in the park, there are panoramic views of Mount Diablo and the Diablo Valley to the east, the Sacramento River and Delta to the north, the East Bay hills and Mt. Tamalpais to the west, and Las Trampas Regional Wilderness to the south.

Briones' 5,756 acres are home to many animals and birds, which forage on the grasslands or find shelter among the oaks and bays. You may see black-tailed deer, coyotes, squirrels, red-tailed hawks, turkey vultures, and, if you are lucky, other more reclusive creatures. There are gorgeous wildflower displays in season.

[mousey1]

my mind
warm summer morn
4:30 or 5ish am
I am
quiet solitude
me, nature
no one to please
just my own senses

ah, bliss...

[Doreen Peri]

Beautiful photos! Thank you!

I find a quiet place every day. I have to.

My house is in a wooded setting so that helps. Even when there's turmoil... work, people coming in and out, etc... I slip away and go outside by myself. I treasure my alone time in quiet settings. Without them, I'd end up in a white jacket strapped to an uncomfortable bed somewhere.

I draw in my journal outside. I write snippets of poetry, notes, mostly... outside. I compose words faster than I can hand-write them down so all I get out of the hand writing is scribbled notes but that's ok. I use them for inspiration when I type but I dearly treasure my alone-time... especially away from the computer and outside.

Winter and I don't agree well with each other.

When it's cold, I can't go outside as much.

I need to find a place to live where it's no warmer than 85 degrees and no colder than 50. Perfect weather. As it has been here all spring. Absolutely lovely and I've been outside enjoying it... me and my watercolor journal... me and my eyes... just me... by myself looking up at the stars and letting the sun warm my skin.

[stilltrucking]

I live at the foot of the main runway of an air force base where they train jet pilots. My little shack is about a hundred yards from the main drag of the Union and Souther Pacific rail roads I am a couple of blocks from the cop shop and ambulance service. Noise is a constant. Some nights I sit here in almost silence except for the whirs, clicks, beeps, of a the gadgets around me. I


so I find it when I am alone with my thoughts
and when ever I hear a train coming

. The trains bring a noise that doctors my ears, a rumbling rambling roar that settles my frazzled nerves.

No car so no getaway spots, but a walk around the block to visit the shady trees is pretty sweet. About half the people here are on canes and walkers, I love to walk. Makes me grateful I still can.
I have a little garden going that brings me peace of mind.




beautiful pictures they all worked for me.