Plymouth, Massachusetts — the grist mill down to Brewster Gardens

Morning rain in Plymouth, in winter. The walk begins at the historic Jenney Grist Mill and follows the Town Brook waterway down to Brewster Gardens. Nothing is added — rainfall, the brook, the low sound of the town starting its day. The recording is binaural; every drop arrives from where it actually fell: on the water to one side of you, on the street to the other. Winter keeps the route quiet; a wet morning like this has the mill mostly to itself. Twenty-one minutes of one morning's weather, the camera getting rained on along with the mill, at a walking pace. If you keep walks like this on while you work or drift off, this one holds a steady register the whole way through — water below, rain above, the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts somewhere behind both. New England does this kind of morning well: gray, unhurried, worth walking in anyway.

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Best with headphones — the audio is true binaural. Watch on YouTube (recommended on TV).