Spring brings daffodils, which possibly brings spring joy.

I was somewhere the other day and someone walked by and I smelt something I hadn't smelt in a long time. Remember when you were little or a teenager and you got your first bottle of perfume?
The lady that walked by had on...Elizabeth Arden's Sunflowers!
Remember this one?
Well, Sunflowers was the very first bottle of perfume of my own.
I remember as a child, soaking myself up in Avon's Skin So Soft oil (also, covering the dog in it to "save him from the mosquitoes", which is what I told my mom when she saw what I'd done). Also, I remember in junior high getting a bottle of Ck One. But none of these come close to my very own bottle of perfume!

Something very significant can be found within me when I connect with a smell. When this person walked by me with Sunflowers on, a scent I had not smelt for years....it took me to an old, safe place. When life was so easy and simple.

I may be ready to leave my computer and writing for a while,
take up a new gardener lifestyle in Tuscany.

I think I'd make a charming gardener with the best sunhats.



Also, please consider contributing to the American Red Cross for Japan's earthquake/tsunami relief funds. They really need our help and even a small contribution can help.

I found a gray hair.