The Smell of Mud

Imagine: you wake up to birds chirping in high pitches to one another and singing their colourful songs. The sun is shining blindingly so lemon yellow. Your mind is light, empty, free, peaceful with no agenda. You delight yourself by skipping out onto the pavement and jumping for joy. It’s a warm spring morning. The green of nature is predominant to the eye. The puddles of melting snow line the sides of the gray paved road. Stopping dead in your tracks…the odour of fresh, wet, thick dirty mud fills your nostrils and hits the back of your brain. You are in love! The smell of mud tells you warmer weather is on the way, your friends will be out to play, there is not a care in the world you need to worry about today and the beauties of nature are starting to be born in the garden…You want nothing more in life than to stay outside all day touching the earth! ~ Memories of Childhood