We'll weather the weather.....

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:54 pm

Martiansky wrote:Oh, I'd like to see some green-ness around here......*sigh*

It has been raining a lot up here in Northern California and the nights have been warm. This has been causing the grass to grow like crazy the past week or so. Yesterday I had to go to one of our network facillities in Sunnyvale and they had just cut the grass. I got my first sniff of what I connect as a scent of spring ... the first cut of the grass.

Like there are comfort foods, I believe there are comfort scents too. Freshly cut grass, Juicy Fruit gum, watermelon, pond scum, mostly smells from my childhood that remind me of home or bring back memories. Many times it isnt a specific memory that it triggers so much as a feeling. A feeling of being transported to another time and place.

I wonder if anyone has bottled the scent of freshly cut grass. It would make for some interesting conversations on the playa!

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:44 pm

oooooo, thunderstorm. Used to pine for an arkansaw springtime thunderstorm with days of torrential rain dumping buckets from teh sky when I lived in dried up colorado. Hey lightningstrike!!! Wow! That was huge!

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:46 pm

OH, you are so lucky Giggles! I love thunderstorms! We might get rain next week. That might wash away some of the dirty snow mess.

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:56 pm

We had thunderstorms here the past couple days. Right on the Equinox, big black clouds, thunder 'n lightning, hail hard enough to blast the flowers off the trees and scare the cat. We even got snow on the high hills last night. Welcome to Spring!!

My Mom's in Santa Cruz and they're getting similar weather, it's the first time either of us can remember rain on Easter. Two weeks ago it was in the 70s and bulbs popping up all over. In like a lion, out like a lamb? Heh!

Wish it'd stop raining...I want to break out the kites and go flying...

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:05 pm

I miss lightning.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:44 am

I love that Spring moist dirt smell, and cut grass. Now that I'm a pool owner, Summer smells like Hot Chlorine. Fall is dead leaves and leafsmoke, and Winter is pine pitch mixed with Oak Firewood Smoke.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:45 am

....except for Late August, which smells like Diesel and Drywall! WooHOO!

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:42 pm

It was 66 degrees here today. Tomorrow is supposed to be in the 60's again and there is talk of a thunderstorm after sunset.

I just love Spring!

I have tomorrow off and I think I'm going to go frolic outside somewhere. Not sure where though. Maybe down by the river...

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:35 am

After you're done with the thunderstorm Blue, send it up here will ya?
I sure love the thunderstorms, I do, I do!

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:45 pm

I'll see what I can do M. But I'm still a little new a moving weather.

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:30 pm

Grandfather Thunder's moving another phalanx in from the north here, I just called a friend out on Territorial Highway a few minutes ago and she was getting hail.

Here comes another bank of big black clouds!!!

Actually they were saying we were moving into a drought condition here (a drought in Oregon! Imagine!) but the past week has pretty much made up for a mostly-dry February. I'm hoping it'll abate by Saturday because I don't want to freeze and get my booth rained on at Saturday Market, which is FINALLY starting back up...

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:27 pm

OK, I'm bored