As the sun sets
through oak and hickory trees,
the cold fog brings
a new set of smells,
rich and deep,
as though you could
stick out a butter knife
and cut a little square
of the air
and pop it into your mouth
and let it dissolve
into rich, earthy flavors:
Fresh mown hay,
corn ripening in the fields,
tall grass
and wildflowers
all around us.
Scents The Fog Reveals – Free Verse
Posted in Nature Observation and tagged connect with nature, fog reveals, grass, nature, nature property, new scent, rural life, taste the smells, wildflower.
David Kuhns
Dave Kuhns is originally a quasi-city boy from suburban Milwaukee, but he spent weekends and summers in nature on Lake Winneconne in central Wisconsin. After raising his kids in a Seattle suburb, he moved to a small town in central Utah. He figured he’d buy some rural property there, or back in the Badger State.
Then he fell in love. Through a series of amazing events, he bought a rural property (a few acres) across the creek from the Chickamauga National Military Park (Civil War battlefield). There, he and his new wife are putting into reality the conservation, gardening and land management practices he learned from his grandmother, his forest ranger Dad, his little brother, and his own surburban experience.