Etude for a Cool Georgia Summer Evening - Improvisational Piano

On a cool Georgia summer evening I was front porch sitting, watching the butterflies, birds and nodding wildflowers mix with a late July sunset. Suddenly, as though from a distant memory, came the soft, slow notes of a piano. It was a different type of www.FrontPorchSense.com + www.NaturesGuy.com! My wife played / improvised a new piano piece.

Coupled with the sounds of crickets, frogs, rustling leaves and more wild sounds from Northwest Georgia, her piano music drifted through the screen window, danced across the newly-mowed lawn, wove past the wildflowers and hickory and oak trees, and rose out into the Georgia summer sunset.

The sounds of Nature/
too seldom mix with music./

When it works: Magic!

The final product reminds me of the BBC’s recording “Nightingales & Bombers”.

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David Kuhns

Dave Kuhns is originally a quasi-city boy from suburban Milwaukee, but he spent weekends and summers in nature on Lake Winneconne in central Wisconsin. After raising his kids in a Seattle suburb, he moved to a small town in central Utah. He figured he’d buy some rural property there, or back in the Badger State.

Then he fell in love. Through a series of amazing events, he bought a rural property (a few acres) across the creek from the Chickamauga National Military Park (Civil War battlefield). There, he and his new wife are putting into reality the conservation, gardening and land management practices he learned from his grandmother, his forest ranger Dad, his little brother, and his own surburban experience.