April 18, 2006
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Pretty, aren’t they?
freesias
I don’t grow these, but they are such delightfully fragranced spring bulb-flowers.
The reason I have posted them here is to share my joy — for the past few days, my sense of smell has been back. I have resigned myself to just dealing with it coming and going as my sinuses do their thing, but when ‘my nose works’ I gleefully run around smelling everything! And what a wonderful time of year to have a functional nose.
Never take the little things for granted. Now and then take the time to stop and (literally) smell the roses. And the hyacinths, and the petunias, and the freshly mown lawn, and your orange juice at breakfast, and the spring rain, and your lover’s hair, and fresh ground coffee, and your bubble bath, and…..
Comments (3)
lol…. yes. wonderful things to smell!
YEAH! Great advice sistah. My sniffer isn’t working at the time…so take a big sniff for me too. Thanks
I love freesias! Hope your sinus problems calm down. Sinus troubles are miserable. I’ve been lucky so far this season, although I just read that NYC is the WORST city for allergies. Thank God mine are mild compaired to many other peoples’.