[at-l] "warmth" already Re: Rockdancer's Present Hike

[Amy Forinash]

The smell of honeysuckle was nearly overwhelming here in central  
Maryland yesterday.  I broke off a small branch and carried it on my  
walk with me, sucking nectar out of the blossoms while the rain slowly  
soaked my raincoat.

On Jun 5, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Tom McGinnis wrote:

>
> ### I am teaching more math this summer -- back-to-back classes that  
> run 3 hours long over 8 weeks -- so I find myself indoors *way* too  
> much. But the other day -- and before this 45°- 65° weather rolled  
> in -- I took a stroll across the street to an expansive urban park  
> (actually, Ft. Ben State Park, for those who may have been), and  
> just sauntered a bit. The smell was magical, of moist green ground  
> and summertime and ridge top trail, and though it was hot (85°) at  
> the time, I thought "I sure wish I was up on some Virginia/Maryland/ 
> Pennsylvania ridge, shirtless and covered in sweat, drinking down my  
> water and casting a glance through the mileage pages to find the  
> next source."
>
> Tom Robbins opines in his Jitterbug Perfume that as a lesser  
> developed sense, the human sense of smell occupies an inordinate  
> amount of our baser "lizard brain" and as such, when something  
> triggers our attention scent-wise, a broader blaze of memory can be  
> trigger than the more specific reactions to our more specialized  
> senses. (In effect, the weaker the sense, the more the brain  
> reaction; the stronger the sense, the less the brain will be  
> stimulated.) Well, I just walked around smelling summer perfume, and  
> finding myself, for the most part, back on the AT 30 years ago,  
> sweating buckets, and loving life.
>
> Perfume.
>
> Have an olfactory day,
> sloetoe
>
> (AND BEST WISHES TO ALL who are currently out for a stroll. Don't  
> sweat *too* much.)
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