It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Instead of spending the whole day bent over the organ ferreting out this cherry rose thing to perfection (which I ultimately did), I decided to walk around town and grab a bite to eat with the wee one, the wee-er one, and their mum. It was nice. A beautiful, sweet-scented, breezy spring day welcomed us at every turn.

  

 These are some of the spring offerings presented by Mother Earth as we traipsed about -- rosemary, budding labdanum, ivy, I don't know what type of leaf, pine and pollen, weedy wheat thing, blossom and bud from cotton wood, and a sweet little acorn, a remnant of fall playing with the spring greens. 

This, my friends, is where a perfumer finds inspiration.