Reader Comments on The Smells of New England from YankeeMagazine.com http://www.yankeemagazine.com/rss/index.php Tue, 22 May 2012 09:05:43 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/smells I wish i had the time to smell every smell u mention and every town u mention and more Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:58:57 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/smells Danny, I don't know where you live, but if it's in New England, I know you have your own memorable scents that will always stay with you. Just the smell of autumn leaves. Thanks for reading. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:45:42 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/smells The temps are in the 40s this week and for the first time this spring, plants are unfolding a little and you start to smell spring on the breeze. Last night I sat down for dinner and we had a moth at the slider and even with the sun down the temperature was showing 50 degrees... I'm sure we're in for more cold weather before spring arrives in March but catching the errant scent of greening things is enough to hold me until spring really gets here.... Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:59:21 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/smells Jeff, I love your line, "the errant scent of greening things." Lovely. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:45:48 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/smells I love the smell of balsam in the great outdoors. Usually on a hike in the woods, the smell will come from out of nowhere and fill the air. I just stand there and sniff it all in. It always feels a little bit warmer in the spot where I can smell the balsam. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:59:51 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/smells Mel, I love your line, "Just the smell of autumn leaves." Lovely. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:56:12 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/smells Mel, I am a Midwesterner in place, a New Englander in heart. A summer trip to the Lakes Region of New Hampshire some years ago filled my lungs - and soul - with the purest air imaginable. I will always remember that fresh breeze with a hint of flowers and an unmistable whiff of the sea borne on the wings of far traveling birds. So cleansing, so calming, so right. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:04:51 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/smells Going north on 128 toward Cape Ann, just before you can see the water, you smell the salt air. That first rest stop on I-95 once you cross into Maine, the scent of pine is heavenly. The smell of mud and decayed vegetation just under the snow as it melts in spring. The awesome aroma when you walk in the door of Coney Island Lunch on Southbridge St. in Worcester, MA. Ah, the memories! Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:32:44 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/smells Me... I'm a Dubliner, and no not from NH! Dublin, Ireland, and when my Mom and I visited Wood's Hole, Cape Cod and took the ferry to The Vineyard, we were guided into port on the wings of the seagulls and the scent of the salt-laden air!! The smell of a pancake and maple syrup breakfast, walking into our favourite diner on Beacon Hill... The aroma of incense wafting from the mysterious cluster of shops, down by the harbour in Salem... The smell of success in Providence RI, and the sweet smell of money in Newport RI!! These are the scents and smells that I experienced in New England, and I truly believe I belonged here in another life! We fit right in, and hope to experience some of the other smells mentioned like woodsmoke in the hills and the smell of Autumn leaves, when we go leaf-peeping in September! Fingers crossed! May sound touristy, but we thoroughly enjoyed our visit, any suggestions on what other things/places we cud see or do welcome! Beautiful, delightful... New England!! = Thanks for sharing Mel! Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:37:32 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/smells gail o: Maybe you can tell us what a peat fire smells like. I wonder if it is as appealing as wood smoke is to us on a crisp winter night. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:07:22 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/smells Thank you to everyone who commented here. It is great fun me to read your own personal special scents . Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:57:09 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/smells I love to inhale the warm, sweet vegetable breath of Rupert, my pet Randall bull, after he's munched some molasses grain or moist, pungent haylage! (It is infinitely preferable to the decidedly non-vegetable suspiratons of my equally beloved cats.) ^ ^ There is nothing so sweet as a summer meadow drying in the sun, clover and mint and timothy, and the perfume of milkweed can make you as dizzy as the honey-crazed bees, because you just want to keep breathing in. *** And I'll bet Gail, from Dublin, knows the delicate fragrance of fluted daffodils, which must be brightening the meadows at home right about now with their pure, simple yellow! Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:34:06 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/smells Oh Laura! You are right the smell of the daffodils is intoxicating at the moment, They are spread over the highways, fields, parks etc, like a bright yellow comforter and serve as a ray fo sunshine to us all here when the sun does not shine...which can be most days!! As for the smell of a peat fire Mel...hard to explain on paper! It has a heady, earthy smell and is indicitive to Ireland, (perhaps Scotland and Wales also). A true peat fire would be found in the rural country villages and towns now, and in areas such as Wicklow in the South East the region (County/State) known as the Garden of Ireland, peat bogs can still be found. In Dublin, (the County/State beside Wicklow) we would have a brick shaped peat fuel to burn in a real fire. However, there are restrictions on what you can burn due to smog laws brought in about 10-15 years ago approx! It is definitely as appealing as the smell of woodsmoke on a crisp Winter night! And it envokes thoughts of coming home from school (now work!!), closing the front door to the outside world, sitting down to a dinner of warming comfort food and cosying down by the fire for the night! It's the smell of old Ireland, and smell of tradition and culture and is steeped in our Nations history. In times of trouble or great success it has been an eternal comfort and a silent giver of hope, as it's heady aroma signaled the winding down of one day and the inevitable beginning of another! Hope that gives you some insight Mel!! Best I can do without bottling the scent and sending it over!! Mmm... that's a thought! :0) Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:22:03 +0100