Between the tag end of April and the start of June we celebrate five family birthdays. It makes for a lot of cake! In the middle of each May the “dwarf” lilac bush we planted about 15 years ago opens in full bloom. The scent fills the air, greeting anyone who comes to the door or settles in a chair or the porch swing for a visit.
I wish we had a “smell app” for WordPress so I could share the delight with you. By the time the last festivities have passed, the lilac will have dropped its flowers and sit, a quiet green shrub, next to the porch. It will, like us, return to its ordinary appearance, but not before it has showered us all with a floral “Happy Birthday.”
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I love the scent of lilac flowers!
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Wonderful!
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Perfect spot for a lilac, to greet all your friends and family with wonderful fragrance!
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Smell app! Now there’s an idea!
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I guess it could be misused by kids! LOL
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Like with a whoopee cushion!
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Yes!
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Loved it!So beautiful Thanks
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Someone trialled a scratch n sniff movie where you took a card in with you and when some trigger flashed on screen you scratched the appropriate square and sniffed hard. It was all going well and then the pandemic hit….
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LOL. In Disney World we took a ride that sprayed us with mist for effect. Of course the effect was that I couldn’t see out of my glasses.
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Perfect.i understand perfectly
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Your lilac bush is lovely indeed, and I can actually imagine the scent from it.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Great imagination.
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Our birthdays seem to bunch together as well. I could have got away with two birthday parties for four offspring if the last hadn’t come two full months early. Next week is my elder daughter’s birthday and her husband’s on the same day, which is something you can’t plan for!
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My daughter and my brother have the same one. My parents and siblings birthdays were all clustered together too. I wonder what astrologists would make of that.
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not sure about astrologists… but I aimed not to be heavily pregnant during the summer months.
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Me too! A summer baby is also much easier than having to bundle up a winter one.
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That’s a big clump of birthdays!
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Yes. Busy late summer couples I guess. LOL
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😉
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Oh, a smell app would be wonderful!
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It sure is. Do you have any lilacs around you? Here they seem to appear in many yards and road sides.
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Lilacs are plentiful this year.
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I guess it has been perfect weather.
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Perfect for lilacs.
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Nature’s gift, the best 🙂
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And just water free from the sky makes it possible.
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