On The Balcony

Standing on your balcony with the broad expanse of forest in front of you is a magical journey you can take everyday without ever having to leave your home. The hills hide such vast avenues of animal expression and experience. To be immersed in the unusual atmosphere of the untouched landscape while sipping on a hot tea and huddling under a thick wool blanket is the ultimate luxury any of us could afford. The afternoon nap is no longer a lazy snooze, but a soundscape of such proportions that it transports your dreams into the vidid realms of another dimension. The word "forest" comes from Middle English forest, from Old French forest (also forès) "forest, vast expanse covered by trees", believed to be a borrowing (probably via Frankish or Old High German) of the Medieval Latin word foresta "open wood". Foresta was first used by Carolingian scribes in the Capitularies of Charlemagne to refer specifically to the king's royal hunting grounds. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=100503