Yes, friends. We are well into greenup. When the leaves are young, they are bright chartreuse, and in the mornings, when they are backlit by the rising sun, they are really stunningly beautiful; they look as gaudily bright as those ridiculous gold-dipped trees they sell in Chinatown. It's also been raining off and on, which is also a novelty, as we hadn't seen liquid water outdoors since September. It washes the dirt and dust from the trees and makes the air smell rich and alive.
That's one thing I miss in winters--natural smells. When everything is frozen, the only odors outside are artificial and generally unpleasant--car exhaust, laundry soap, oil furnaces, wood smoke, cooking fumes, people's synthetic perfumes. Come spring, the earth thaws and lets out its own fragrances--rain and spring dirt, willow buds and rotting leaves.
2 comments:
good photo you took, is it from your yard?
No; it was on UAF campus.
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