The aroma of spring

[Faulkner]

As Daisy and I took out to check on the livestock the sweet aromas turned our stroll along the fence rows into a delicacy for the nose. Spring in the Ozarks brings soothing scents like lilacs, apple blossoms, honeysuckle and daffodils. The smell of knee high lespedeza grass adds to the smell of spring. After nearly a week of isolated rain showers the clouds parted just as the sun was nearing the horizon this evening. Wildflowers are abundant, fresh, green and delicate.

The blackberry vines are full of buds that will hopefully develop into plump, ripe berries before the summer heat causes them to whither. They are intermixed with yellow and white honeysuckle in full bloom, and with my eyes closed just absorbing the sweet smell to the recesses of my brain I hear a hummingbird whiz by my head to get it's fill of the abundant wild nectar.

I snapped a few pictures and maybe if you look closely then close your eyes you can pick up just a hint of the sweet smell of springtime in the Ozarks.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I love that Bluebird house!

Ivan

 

[Rudi]

You are a man of many talents.

 

[mckenney99]

I have a dwarf Lilac bush in full bloom just outside my bedroom window and the last couple of days the weather has been perfect to open the windows and "swap out" the air.

 

[Faulkner]

I love that Bluebird house!

Ivan

My dad made that about 20 years ago, it's been on that post a while.

 

[Puller]

I seem to recall your last years blackberry crop was plagued by drought before they could fully ripen on the vine. Hopefully they'll make it this year.

 

[soFlaNative]

Lovely.
Springtime here brings the easterlies with accompanying tree leaf & pollen drop with heavy sargassum at the coast.

 

[jeffrefrig]

Beautiful pictures up there! That's the cure for the winter doldrums.

 

[16thVACav]

I'm pretty sure I remember reading a rule here that required you to include a picture of Daisy in each of your posts.

 

[Vtgw938]

Spring time smells here means one thing, manure spreading.

 

[Faulkner]

I'm pretty sure I remember reading a rule here that required you to include a picture of Daisy in each of your posts.

 

[Old_Cop]

She is a happy girl.

 

[Buford57]

I've had to settle for the memory of smells since 1997. Your post brought back one of my top 5 favorites: lilacs in spring. Thanks for the memories.

The others, by the way, are baking bread, puppy breath, sagebrush after rain and freshly fired paper shotshells.

 

[Faulkner]

I've had to settle for the memory of smells since 1997. Your post brought back one of my top 5 favorites: lilacs in spring. Thanks for the memories.

The others, by the way, are baking bread, puppy breath, sagebrush after rain and freshly fired paper shotshells.

Yeah, there are certain smells that when I encounter them immediately bring back memories of certain events or situations. Anytime I get a whiff of fresh baked biscuits I instantly think of my mother's kitchen growing up.

 

[Rammer Jammer]

Spring is my favorite season for many reasons. Much of my preference comes from the smell of spring, just everything blooming and coming to life. Always reminds me of walking to elementary school with my buddies in the morning.

 

[Bugkiller99]

I'm pretty sure I remember reading a rule here that required you to include a picture of Daisy in each of your posts.

If it is not a rule, I'll start a petition. And then send it to Lee. I'm sure it will have many, many signatures.

 

[Tom S.]

I love fall best, but spring is right behind it. As to it's aroma, I spell it C-l-a-r-i-t-i-n.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I just came back in from my back yard. The breeze is thick with the scents of folks burning last years remnants off their grills and Harley exhaust.

 

[ACORN]

Spring time smells here means one thing, manure spreading.

Took my MIL to breakfast today. Across the road from the restaurant is a farm. Waiting for the restaurant to open occasionally you'd get a whiff. I'm not ashamed to say it wasn't totally unpleasant.
I must have been a farmer/rancher in a past life.

 

[Rustyt1953]

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