Some of us actually, really do, like the smell of horses and their manure!
But there are also the more delectable fragrances of:
Russian Olive in the Fall.....
Gardenias
Honeysuckle
Viburnum in June
Fresh mown anything: grass, hay
A plowed field; freshly turned over dirt
Mint growing under a leaky faucet
Pungent English box
Hopewell and West Point
Mounds of crab shells in Hampton
In very, very early Spring, on balmy nights, there is a soft breeze coming
off the Bay that brings its own sweet smell of what? I've never been able to
classify the smell; it's just the Bay at peace.
The best of all: the smell of the James River on certain, still days....part
fish, part oyster, part crab, part pine from the woods, part clay and mud
from the river bank.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean Spradlin-Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: southern tastes and other sesnes?


> Barbecue is the first that comes to mind, but everyone is getting into the
> act now -- it's a national phenomenon now.
>
> One scent that always takes me back to my childhood is honeysuckle!
>
> Jean
>
>>
>> From: David Kiracofe <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: 2007/01/11 Thu PM 06:57:33 EST
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: southern tastes and other sesnes?
>>
>> My mother always called it "poor horse" (to make fun of Daddy), but we
>> all ate it.
>> We've all  been talking about the tastes of the south (and I guess
>> Pennsylvania and Virginia Germans--our Kiracofes came over as George
>> III's mercenaries, but stayed around because they found plenty of
>> Germans here), what about the smells?:  all this talk of ham, and stew
>> and panhaus -- we get some pretty distinctive southern smells (don't
>> forget collards!).  What are some other smells we associate with the
>> south?
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> David Kiracofe
>> History
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>> Chesapeake Campus
>> 1428 Cedar Road
>> Chesapeake, Virginia 23322
>> 757-822-5136
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