Wet Forest Floor

Evening! Not sure how I'm going to top the last line of my last post but we'll see. It was actually pretty awesome outside today. It was raining for a long time higher up for most of the afternoon and its smelled so good from my house, it was Amazing. How does one describe what the wet pines trees smell like after a long rain when its raining 5+ miles away. And it goes way beyond the smell of some silly floor cleaner.

The amazing part is, its smells like I was sitting under the trees right then in the early morning air. The tree bark is soaking wet and the branches are dripping water from their needles to the forest floor. When I walk, the ground gives about an inch and the water squishes out from under the needles. I'm over 5 miles down the hill and can understand all this from what the aroma that is being carried in the breeze. Usually its the smell of the warm wet desert of the scrub oak, cedar, and sage. Today its the wet pine floor and bark from 9,000 feet. Hours later and it still amazing.

If I could possible sleep in my swing chair, I would, but I don't think I would last long. My long a** legs would be screaming for being curled up for too long. So, the window is open in my room and that will have to do.