Re: TOTD 012209: favorite place

[Guest guest]

>What is the smell of your favorite place, home, kitchen, garage,

>church, baby's bedroom, a particular stretch of oceanside, your forest?

Since I was about 6 years old, my family and I always went to the same place

in Spain on holidays. Now I still go there with my parents and my husband

and kids. I can smell the place just like that out of my memory. I smell

pine trees, rosemary, hot air and the sea. Mmmmm :-) Definitely one of my

favourite places with those smells, the sun, sea, nature, quiet.

Love,

Saskia

[Guest guest]

One of my favorite smells is the smell of my classroom in the

morning. The students are clean and smell of Irish Spring before

school. I have a garden outside that the students tend to. The lead

pencils after being sharpened let me feel that wisdom will take

place.

Another combination of smells I love is on the island of Kauai where

I visited as a child and adult. Plumeria, pikaki and hibiscus

flowers abound, but cannot compete with the smell of a Puka Dog.

It's a regular hot dog served with mustard and mango sauce,

smoothered with the smell of just baked bread. Eating a Puka dog

next to the ocean with the scent of fragrant flowers is sublime.

[Guest guest]

> Eating a Puka dog

> next to the ocean with the scent of fragrant flowers is sublime.

Tremendous image.

[Guest guest]

>

> Another combination of smells I love is on the island of Kauai where

> I visited as a child and adult. Plumeria, pikaki and hibiscus

> flowers abound, but cannot compete with the smell of a Puka Dog.

> It's a regular hot dog served with mustard and mango sauce,

> smoothered with the smell of just baked bread. Eating a Puka dog

> next to the ocean with the scent of fragrant flowers is sublime.

>

I was going to mention Hawaii too! I've never had a Puka dog,

though, never even heard of it! Maybe its a Kauai thing, I was on the

Big Island and Oahu. So, I have the scents of plumeria, pua keni

keni, gardenias, white ginger, tuberoses,guavas, the vanilla tobacco-

meadowy smell of lau'ae ferns, the earthy, woody, mossy smell of the

rainforest, the briny/fresh smell of the ocean, and the nose-

curdleing pungency of marijuana(hey, I stayed in Puna, hippie capital

of Hawaii!).

Another favorite place smells are of where my grandparents used to

live, Demotte, Indiana. There was this intense earthy smell to the

air, always. Maybe it had to do with the soil(very sandy, but loamy

too, and I believe very acidic), or all of the oak trees and pines

that grew there and the loam the leaves and bark created. And also

across the road from my grandparents place, was an evergreen forest,

spruce, I think. I think at one time it must have been a nursery,

because the trees were growing in perfect, diagonal rows, creating

the ethereal effect of columned hallways. It was so quiet in there,

with the carpeting of needles on the ground, and on a hot summer day,

the oils of the needles wafting in the air........

[Guest guest]

And also

> across the road from my grandparents place, was an

> evergreen forest,

> spruce, I think. I think at one time it must have been a

> nursery,

> because the trees were growing in perfect, diagonal rows,

> creating

> the ethereal effect of columned hallways. It was so quiet

> in there,

> with the carpeting of needles on the ground, and on a hot

> summer day,

> the oils of the needles wafting in the air........

>

>

POETIC PROCESSING recombining GOOD!

Bb

[Guest guest]

but loamy too,

Hmmm... What does loamy smell like?

[Guest guest]

 

Hmmm... What does loamy smell like?

 

DIRT!

[Guest guest]

POETIC PROCESSING recombining GOOD!

Bb

Thanks!