The flowers that bloom in the spring (tra la). Roses smell wonderful, but daffodils? Do they have a scent? Hyacinth is powerful … but columbine? It looks aromatic, but …
Inside, there’s coffee, always coffee. The smells of anything baking. Bread, cookies, brownies. It makes you hungry. When that grubby mutt pups up into your lap, now that’s an earthy aroma. Makes you … yeah … want to call the groomer. Immediately. “Do you have room for an emergency? Because I have two of them …”
Over the years, I have become almost unconscious of some of the smells around me, especially the dogs. I can still smell food. I know when the pizza’s done by the smell. I know when that turmeric shrimp and rice is ready to eat. My nose knows.
Has anyone been on a New York city subway recently? Now that is an aroma you can get your teeth into!
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SHARING MY WORLD – WELCOME TO AUGUST 2017! 
OH! THE FLOWERS THAT BLOOM IN THE SPRING, TRA LA 
THE FINAL CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
That’s the only thing we haven’t figured out how to do with a camera – capture the aroma or scent.
Yet.
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Let me know if you work it out. That would really jazz up this site!
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love this Marilyn- and oh boy the subway in the summer is an unforgettable smell. Turmeric is so good for you- an anti inflammatory- that bright color is not just for staining fingers! I add it to tea and Quinoa when I cook it 🙂
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I actually use it as a coating for shrimp and sometimes, chicken. And, of course, rice. I always used it for a lot of things. I’ve upgraded to an organic product, and since it’s less expensive now than it was, I use more of it for more different things.
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One of my favorite smells is honeysuckle! Brings back happy childhood memories!
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I love the smell of honeysuckle, but that is one pernicious vine! If you let it into your garden, it will choke everything.
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The honeysuckle takes over the fence.. But it smells so good I just have to let it go to a point!
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It decided to choke EVERYTHING. If you can keep it isolated, it’s okay, but once it gets loose, it’s really hard to control it. It is one strong vine.
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Delicious! The roses so beautiful, I could almost smell their heady scent. You made the other aromas as pungent and real. Loved this.
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As I said, these aren’t as strongly aromatic as tea roses and climbers. They also aren’t nearly as big. These are quite small, actually.
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But very pretty
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And insanely hardy!
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Now I’m missing the roses outside my brother’s old house back East. They were some antique variety that actually smelled like ROSES.
I can’t eat shrimp, but I wonder how turmeric would taste in some sort of fish chowder/curry.
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I should think it would taste fine. Turmeric is a relatively subtle taste and goes well with many other things, especially curry.
The hedge roses aren’t even antique. They are the ancestors of all the tea roses, climbers. These have been around for a very long time. Hundreds of years and I think started out as wild.
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I was already immune to the New York subway smell when I arrived, after sharing my earlier years with the smell of the London Underground (it seems if you pass an electric current through Oxygen you get Ozone – O3) which explains the main smell in the air. My sense of smell is OK, Mr. Swiss not so much, although he smells stuff I don’t smell and vice versa.
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New York is way beyond ozone. I try not to think about what some of those smells may be. Best to not know.
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Our last NYC Subway ride was several years ago. We were headed to Yankee Stadium. I was oppressed more by the over the top noise than the aroma. My hearing aids almost burned out.
I do recall the NY subways of yesteryear. Rode ’em alone as a tyke. Those were more innocent times.
I was always fascinated by the central casting collection of people. I wasn’t oblivious to the odor. It was part of the experience.
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This made me want to smell turmeric shrimp, sounds tasty!
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It’s really good. AND good for you 🙂 All you need are shrimp, rice, spices, chicken broth … and a rice cooker.
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I must try this. I have never cooked shrimp in my rice cooker.
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I use precooked frozen shrimp, but shrimp doesn’t take long to cook, so it should work. You can cook all kinds of stuff in your rice cooker. I worried about the turmeric staining the pot, but it hasn’t. My fingernails are really yellow, though. Turmeric is a powerful dye. Good for you, apparently, but watch out for your clothing!
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I use turmeric for flavor sometimes, but this will be a new try for me.
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Our most recent shrimp ‘n rice dinner was wonderful, better than ever. Two and a half helpings. Yummy!!
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Glad you liked it. That pretty much guarantees you’ll be seeing it again. Soon 🙂
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We have a climbing rose on the side of the house that looks like that. They smell delightful.
Leslie
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Our roses don’t have much of a smell. They are hedge roses. The climbers have a much stronger scent.
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I find that is very common now – no scent. I always select any new roses for their scent.
Leslie
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I think hedge roses are actually a very old form of roses from which the fancier ones were bred. They do smell like roses, but the intensity of the scent is not so much. When the bushes are first blooming, the aroma is the strongest.
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I feel like launching into “The Last Rose of Summer”.
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Now that sounds like the beginning of a good song, Gary.
Leslie
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How about the smell of something burning in the kitchen? Now, there’s a smell all too common around our house. 🙂
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And when i smell it I automatically think “There’s goes another pot. Damn!” Yes, all too familiar. Expensive smell, that is!
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I’m the cook, Lynn cleans up after me. So she’s usually the one that thinks “there goes another pot”! Me? I’m thinking “they’ll eat it and like it”!
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I’m the cook. Garry doesn’t cook, but he does clean much of the time. I’ve gotten very serious about timers and Teflon. I can’t keep affording to replace stuff!
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I never hear the timer. And Lynn has a thing about the teflon coating. So she gets to clean.
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I hear the time about 50% of the time. The rest of time, I just figure it’s been a while and I should go check. The oven turns itself off, so nothing gets torched and I use the slow cooker (with a cooking bag, so no clean up required) for many things. I may not be the best cook, but I am probably the NEATEST cook. I specialize in under 5 minute clean ups.
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Emilio, Marilyn is pretty thrifty on volume of cooking utensils. She’s also neat and caters to my whims. NO Lima beans or peas!!! Marilyn is ‘umble about her cooking. I know she doesn’t like doing it anymore after a lifetime of cooking for people — but whatever she turns out, it’s usually great!!
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Good to know when we stop by for a visit! 🙂 I love to cook but hate to clean up.
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So do I, so I have learned to cook VERY neatly, using as few pots and utensils as possible. And clean as I go so there isn’t a mountain of mess after the meal. After a while, it becomes automatic.
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Great photo.
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Thank you 🙂 Got the color right for a change!
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