It's interesting you comment on the sweet smell off the Bay; many of
the very early accounts of the first settlers and explorers to
Virginia talk about a sweet smell off the land that they could smell
several miles out at sea. There were comments about the sweet smell,
it was notable. How odd.
I love the smell of fresh, rich soil, too.
Nancy
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--Daniel Boone
On Jan 12, 2007, at 12:14 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> 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
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