I just walked outside

[xiphias]

I often don't leave the house for days at a time, but I just walked outside to get something from the car.

It's autumn. I walked outside and it smelled like autumn.

The first day of the year that smells like autumn doesn't just smell like autumn, it smells like every autumn. You smell that, and you don't just smell now, you smell the autumn of every year of your life, past and future. And possibly every autumn before you were born, and after you die, too.

Whenever the seasons change, you get that. Four times a year, you can smell time.

Comments

[angelovernh.livejournal.com]

I really like that idea and it makes sense to me about smelling time.. and you don't get that in all parts of the country, so let us be grateful for that gift of time sensing with the seasons changing.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

What a lovely - and true - way to put it.

[delerium69.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I miss autumn in New England. It's not the same down here.

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

Yesterday here was hot and quite humid, felt very like 'still summer', this morning I wake up and it's cool and drippy and misty. Decidedly autumnal. I like this sort of weather. Is nice.

Perhaps I should write about 'Goose Fair weather' sometime, I wonder if anyone else still uses that expression.

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Four times a year, you can smell time.

Never lived in California, right? :-)

[Yes, there are seasons out here. But it's more like 2, maybe 3 unless you're in the mountains and the smells don't change as much or in the same way as the Eastern/New England spring/summer/fall/winter differentials]

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I never have, and, much as I've liked it when I've visited there, I don't think I could give up the sharp snap of the change of seasons.

[sproutntad.livejournal.com]

Have the leaves started changing? I really hope that it'll be actual Fall when I go up there at the end of the month. I haven't seen "Fall" since '99

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

The leaves have not yet started changing, so I suspect they'll be pretty good by the time you get here.

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

Four times a year, you can smell time.

Beautiful way to say it. I had the same feeling when I left the house yesterday - although the trees in our yard are still pretty green, autumn had definitely arrived. This morning, there were tiny touches of yellow and red beginning to show. I love the autumn. Sukkot is not too far away now. Come play under the leaves.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Yes.