Summer Smells

It's beginning to smell like summer and I love it! I walked out of the main house this morning and I could smell cherry tomatoes, what is smells like when they are so ripe that they are about to burst. It's one of my favourite smells in the entire world.

More than just that I can smell the hyacinths. Soon there will be lilacs. The tulips are all out with beautiful colours. I want there to be roses, but they aren't out yet. There will be pollen everywhere in about a week and I will be crying all the time because of it.

I can hear the birds from my bedroom window and it is the most beautiful wake up call in the morning. This is what I love about the summer. It means I get to come home for a few months and not read text books at night, but head out and have a good time.

It's incredible how much simple smells trigger in my brain. When I can smell corn, I'm back at my cottage peeling corn on the steps with the BBQ going with great thick steaks. When I smell certain flowers I come back to the house I live at for the summer. I'm not good with flowers so I know that when I smell any sort of garden, it's not mine.

I know that summer is coming because of all the things that I can smell. And it feels great. Winter has been long and hard and emotionally exhausting. Now I get to relax and enjoy the summer. With all the smells of summer, I know more than that the summer is coming. I also know that I get to be home and get to be me again.