Friday, August 29, 2014

Window Breeze

True confessions.
 I'm a big smell guy. I always have been, I guess. Elenka first brought this lure of my olfactory sense to my attention. 
"Do you have to smell everything?"
I really never knew I did it, and I don't go out of my way to sample everything. To tell you the truth, I'm not really sure if I do or not. Elenka probably has tabulated a good list. Now, I don't think I'm OCD. It's not a fear, a worry, an apprehension. It provides me with no anxiety or compulsion. I'm not a hoarder, a re-checker or a compulsive washer of my hands. I do admit though that this AM I have smelled my glass of orange juice, cup of coffee, my cat, the inside of my baseball cap and a pillow on the couch. While on a walk to check out a parade of seventeen wild turkeys through the backyard, I did detour to the laundry on the line for a whiff. Ah... Very nice. A couple of days ago, I was cleaning out my workbench drawers. I hosed them out and left them to dry in the sun. When I returned, I just couldn't resist. I drew in a long scent. The pine pounded together many moons ago by my grandfather still smelled strong. Yesterday morning, I didn't even have to travel to the garage or the garden to get my 'fix'. When I walked into the bedroom these curtains were almost out straight with a strong morning breeze. That flow of wind was so aromatic and invigorating! I stretched my arms wide side to side and even my shirt was stirring. For a split second I was on the bow of the Titanic. "I'm the king of the world..."
Ok, I'm back to reality now.
Thanks for allowing me this sensual detour. 

18 comments:

  1. the sense of smell reminds of of so many things we thought we forgot! lol at the titanic reference!

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  2. .....and I thought he would have nothing to do when he retired!

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  3. If I opened the window of my living room, I'd probably smell the asphalt being used to resurface the four-lane divided road about a stone's throw away. Mind you, I've got a lousy pitching arm. :-)

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  4. small detour or smell detour?! :)

    (and that road to nowhere is our driveway...)

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  5. I love following along on one of your colorful detours!

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  6. The photograph is a classic; great composition with the open window and lightly blowing curtains. It is lovely.

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  7. Well then I must be a smell addict also Birdman :) you composed a wonderful image to disclose your smell tendencies :)

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  8. I like this....
    A bit like a scene from a film.

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  9. It's nice to sit inside in the evening and smell a neighbour's barbeque cooking up something delicious!

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  10. Laughing here...You & Elenka, I'm remembering Burns & Allen...Anyway, I too am a smell gal...My sense of smell is intense & sometimes it creates trouble, being around mold & perfumes for example...The sense of smell is devalued, I think...
    Maybe we can get retirement jobs at the airport, sniffing people's baggage...
    Enjoy the sensory world, I say...

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  11. My sense of smell is rather undeveloped, but my hearing on the other hand is very finely tuned.

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  12. . . . ah, a man who stops to smell the roses . .. . and the curtains . . .and . . .

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  13. Nice detour. Oh and yes the vase in my post is ceramic. Made from the red dirt on the Jemez Pueblo.

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  14. I think a lot of my memories are brought back by aromas but I doubt that I'm as sensitive to smells as you are.

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  15. I don't know what happened just now, but you may have a three-letter-jibberish comment from me. Spastic hands and a keyboard. Anyway, I wanted to tell you that your post today touches me as I sit in my studio apartment's living area--I smell Portland, this part of Portland, right through my open windows, and I love it! Maybe we can get together when you're here? 601-951-0648. Hope so. If you think it would work out that you would call, what area code would you call from, please, so that I know it's not some dratted spam phone call which I always ignore. Thanks!

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