Wild flowers
Sep. 21st, 2025 07:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ionelvI have lived mostly in urban areas save for some time before I turned 5 and some summers I spent with my grandparents as a teenager. My sense of smell is quite developed and I recall the smell of flowers (especially roses and lilacs) and perfumes from my childhood, but I would say my sense of taste left even stronger memories: grapes, walnuts, cherry plums (corcoduşe), pears, watermelon, tomatoes, cucumbers, carob, chestnuts, mulberries, quince, oranges, bubble gum, etc.
When we lived in Bronte, I distinctly remember two aromas: one Amur maple and one basswood tree in flower. I have not encountered anything like it before. Unforgettable.
Since we moved to the country side, the smell of wild weed flowers hits me like a train every once in a while: while walking down the track between the trees and the mostly wild pasture, while walking by the wild grapes or the sumacs, or just tonight, walking nowhere near any recognizable wild flowers. The aromas are amazing and indelible. I wish all people could experience something like this at least three times in their lives.
When we lived in Bronte, I distinctly remember two aromas: one Amur maple and one basswood tree in flower. I have not encountered anything like it before. Unforgettable.
Since we moved to the country side, the smell of wild weed flowers hits me like a train every once in a while: while walking down the track between the trees and the mostly wild pasture, while walking by the wild grapes or the sumacs, or just tonight, walking nowhere near any recognizable wild flowers. The aromas are amazing and indelible. I wish all people could experience something like this at least three times in their lives.
