Weeping Willows don't make for good memories, or images in Japan!
I used to climb one Willow in my back yard as a child, sometimes reading a book in the tree, or just to swing and jump back down. I love them, myself.
This particular tree is by our new condo-home.
In Californa, Jasmine is everywhere, and blooming all year round.
I moved to California to my Grandmom's in 1980 to go to college.
Grandmom had Jasmine everywhere around her home. This is one smell I always associate to California, well, Santa Cruz California.
Actually a combination of Jasmine along with the smell of Snails.
Dear sweet, sweet Grandmom used to ask me to smash all the snails I could find in her backyard.
I did do that for Grandmom, before, and now.
And around our new home now, snails use the sidewalk along with all the people. Unfortunately at night snails succumb to the big feet of people and are always "run over".
I used to "save" worms in Pennsylvania, when it rained so much- they would be all over the roads and I felt sorry for them, so picked them up with sticks and flipped them back into the grass. Little did I know, I was sending them back into their doom. Someone informed me a few years ago, worms had had to LEAVE the flooded soil to survive- and there I was tossing them back to their deaths.
Anyway, worms and snails, they do smell differently! xoxoxox
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