Sweet scents and sweet cane

[primsong]

Rigging a trellis for my sugar-snap peas out in the rain, everything is scented of narcissus, cherry-blossoms, rain and earth, overwhelming in its sweetness. Cooler today, but certainly still springtime, the land about me adrift in a sea-foam of daffodils and candytuft.

Found sugar-cane strips at the pet store being sold as a treat for parrots; we looked for them when we went to Maui and never found a bit, I have no idea why they stopped marketing it to us people-folk, but apparently the birds may still have it. My kids are all chewing on pieces of it now - one of those simple things they always wanted to try because of my own tales of following the sugar-cane trucks when I was a youngster, chewing pieces of cane that fell when it hit ruts in the field, still warm from the burning.

Go out and stand under a blossoming tree and let the petal fill your hair - breathe deeply. Sweet.

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[lin4gondor.livejournal.com]

Following the sugar cane trucks, wheee! I never did it myself, but we used to have the worst time avoiding the kids in Pakistan who used to run after the trucks and the camel carts stacked high with sugar cane, paying no attention to the traffic. One bigger kid would pull off as much as he could while the cart was moving and the littler ones would gather it up to share out. We'd wait until we got to the village where we could go out and cut some for ourselves. It's really good exercise for the jaws, lol!