My dog, Laika, does what my mom has always called "sniffing the wild air." She closes her eyes, tips her head up, and uses her nostrils like a pair of small bellows, welcoming in the scents. She looks peaceful, happy and relaxed.
I drink my coffee on the back porch in the morning, so I can feel the weather, and so I can feel like I belong. Some mornings it is hard to stay out there, with the warm protection of the kitchen behind me. But I like ritual, or I am a creature of habit, or whatever... I need to smell the wind: is it blowing in ocean salt or hyacinth? just sewer gas and diesel fume?
This morning was a treat: southern pine, on a raft of peach-and-lilac sunrise.
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At our last house the dogs would do the same thing. In the late afternoons it was often because the neighbors were usually starting to bbq. Some mornings I'm sure it was because they were cooking bacon ;) This morning here though, I think it smelled more like rain...that fresh, clean, woodsy smell.
Beautifully written -- I can almost smell the "wild air" now. Tomorrow morning I will pay more attention to the smell of the air. : )
Zoe, I know that taking in the air thing dogs do, like they're navigating.
There's nothing like meeting the new day.
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