Wednesday, January 21, 2004



Arctic Odoriferous

We've had a few days in a row now of that "walk outside and your lungs freeze" type of cold weather. It's interesting to me how there is like little or no 'smell' outside when the weather is so cold... as though the odors are trapped within a frozen time warp themselves.

Now, certainly, not all things smell good outdoors, try walking around a farm on the first 50 degree sunny day after a few weeks of frozen weather and you will find that out, but on that first sunny day as I drive around with the window open on your car and take a deep breath, I always seem to think to myself about how strange it is that there isn't much that has any smell at all when it's really cold out.

I imagine though, that people with allergies really like the frozen weather because it eliminates a lot of the catalysts that cause their allergies to rear their ugly heads... I don't like cold weather though, it's amazing I live where I do, no difference between Nebraska and the north pole this time of year, except for a few barbed wire fences...