2 April 04

Warm Pine Needles

July in the Gredos mountains, west of Madrid . . . June in Idyllwild . . . May in South Carolina . . . August in the Landes near Bordeaux.

When pine needles have been sitting on the ground, piled up for a while, and get warmed by the sun of the late afternoon, and that languid time and scent is punctuated by occasional languid birdcall, when the breeze rustles the tall pines overhead, then is the best time, the best place, for a nap.

For the Ecotone Wiki’s joint post on Smell and Place.

Posted by at 07:42 PM in Nature and Place | Link |
  1. So happy to see Idyllwild among your examples! And there’s a spot on the Berkeley campus, a path that runs down from Dwinelle, along Strawberry Creek, to Oxford St. Runs through a pine grove, always so fragrant when the weather warms up. I loved riding my bike through there but never though to stop and take a nap. Thanks for the memory!

    — Doc Rock    3. April 2004, 07:09    Link

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