Gerry Wykes
The secret sounds that plants make.

Andrew Wollner
Two dogs, hold the mustard.

Kath Weider-Roos
Janie Paul listens for the end of winter at a special spot along Huron River Drive.

Kath Weider-Roos
1.6 million boxes of Jiffy mix are made each day at this plant in Chelsea, MI.

David Ostrem
The Amtrak Wolverine passes through Mattawan daily heading east at speeds as high as 95. However, on this day, David Ostrem clocked it at a slow 79 on his police radar.

Richard Mossburg
Spring marks the annual return of the sandhill cranes to Chelsea MI.

Kurt Hillig
In spring an old frog’s fancy turns to thoughts of sex.

Jacques Mersereau
The anxiety calls of the American Robin, followed by their songs. In the background, quiet, are an Eastern Phoebe and Cedar Waxwings.

Gerry Wykes
A March medley of songbirds including Mourning Doves, Dark-eyed Juncos, Cardinals and a passing Ring-billed Gull recorded next to a bubbling creek in S.E. Michigan.

Sadie Wilcox
Tom Roberts describes one of his favorite sounds of of the season.

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Before she owned horses, Julia Millies never knew they made this sound.

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Jenny Armstrong notices the sound of ‘Scarface’, a hair-raising ski hill at Nub’s Nob in northern Michigan.

Stephanie Rowden
Etai and Dani Smotrich-Barr make music out of winter.

Greg Laman
A hardy flock of crows rule the woods in the winter.

Stephanie Rowden
While shoveling on a sunny day, Mark Schneyer considers a moment when winter is not so bad after all.

Stephanie Rowden
Winter sometimes requires collective effort.

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Walking on a frozen lake in Northern Michigan.

Stephanie Rowden
Michael Flynn meditates on a winter sound.

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Tim Tebeau fishes for steelhead trout in Boyne River.

Katherine Weider
Lou Weir, Bev Champagne, Bob Wehrwein and Martha Gesmundo conjure up the sound of summer.

Stephanie Rowden
A quiet moment from the Upper Peninsula.

Stephanie Rowden
On a crisp Autumn afternoon Irena Dezazzo, Avi Cohen and Eli Cohen get to work.

Melanie Manos
From the shores of Lake St. Clair.

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Leonard Donahoo shares his favorite sound.

J. Amadaeus Scott
Sense memories from Lake Michigan.

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Cindy Overmyer’s love of trains goes back to her childhood.

Stephanie Rowden
A postcard from the bleachers.

Stephanie Rowden
Overheard at Sasha Farm in Manchester, MI.

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A fall walk by the Huron River.

Sara Blakely
Virginia “Dessa” Smith recalls her days as a tomboy growing up in Melvindale, MI.

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Joann McDaniel shares a childhood memory of the ’sound of Santa Claus’.

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Vendors at Kerrytown Market hawk their wares in this holiday haiku.

Lawrence LaMere
This recording was made March 02, 2009, one week before a Northeast wind created massive ice piles from Linwood to the mouth of the Saginaw River. The sound is of Ice expanding and contracting on Saginaw Bay.

Gerry Wykes
Red-winged Blackbirds males verbally vie for territory in a Lake Erie marsh accompanied by a pair of passing geese and a distant cardinal.

Katherine Weider
During the time her 20 month old nephew was in treatment for brain cancer, the sound of Joann McDaniel’s cellphone became a trigger for anxiety as the news of his progress would come in. (Her nephew is now three and a half and just played a gingerbread man in the school play.)

Michael Billmire
On a summer evening in 2008, cicadas, crickets and birds sing along to this intro to a song recorded by the indie/folk/country group Holly Mae and the Painted Room, recorded in a house in Ann Arbor’s Historic Old West Side with the balcony door open.

Andrew Wollner
Recreating sounds of the past at the Renaissance Festival in Holly, MI.

Sarah Hulett
Sarah & her dad take a trip down a very steep hill in Leelanau County on an inflatable tube. Sarah admits, “the person cackling is indeed me.”

Sarah Hulett
A rock-throwing session in a little stream that flows into Lake Superior near Grand Marais just as a storm moves across the horizon.

Julia Millies
Julia Millies makes a case for renaming the state bird.