Oh....how do I choose between the Spring and the Fall?
They are like two completely different beautiful characters to me.
I smell when the Spring starts, and that can sometimes be in February. Suddenly the scents outside on the air are different. I think it must be the rising sap. Or it may be the Primroses which bloom early here. Primroses have a lovely scent but they are hardly ever noticed for that as they grow so close to the ground, and people rarely go on all fours to the ground to smell them.
But when there are many of them their scent must go into the air.
Winter has quite a flat scent...then suddenly something happens. Even while it's still bitter cold many times.
And then in the Autumn, things smell like ripe fruit, even fruit that has dropped from the trees and is rotting, because the deer and Badgers have full bellies from more than enough to eat! But it never smells bad; just a "composty" scent. And in the woods, the fallen leaves also start to rot down, and the mushrooms grow, and that's a lovely dark mysterious mouldy smell. Reminding me of collecting logs in the woods while there are still fine dry days to be had.
But I have to agree -the colours of Autumn are amazing.
They are like two completely different beautiful characters to me.
I smell when the Spring starts, and that can sometimes be in February. Suddenly the scents outside on the air are different. I think it must be the rising sap. Or it may be the Primroses which bloom early here. Primroses have a lovely scent but they are hardly ever noticed for that as they grow so close to the ground, and people rarely go on all fours to the ground to smell them.
But when there are many of them their scent must go into the air.
Winter has quite a flat scent...then suddenly something happens. Even while it's still bitter cold many times.
And then in the Autumn, things smell like ripe fruit, even fruit that has dropped from the trees and is rotting, because the deer and Badgers have full bellies from more than enough to eat! But it never smells bad; just a "composty" scent. And in the woods, the fallen leaves also start to rot down, and the mushrooms grow, and that's a lovely dark mysterious mouldy smell. Reminding me of collecting logs in the woods while there are still fine dry days to be had.
But I have to agree -the colours of Autumn are amazing.
