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scent portraits
May. 27th, 2014 10:19 amI was wishing I could make a scent recording of the route from my home to the supermarket. You'd get the fresh, sweet-light scent of long grass, and then the cloying, overpowering scent of the Russian olives in bloom, and then a whiff of creosote, as I passed a telephone pole, and then the sharp, rich smell of the mulch heaped around the bushes by the supermarket.
If I took a sound recording on the same journey, then as I walked along the boardwalk through the marsh, you'd hear--without fail--a frantic robin fly up from under the boardwalk. She's made a nest down there, and every time I walk along the boardwalk, she flies away in a panic. I hope she doesn't have high blood pressure or PTSD by the time she's done incubating her eggs.
The thing is, she's actually quite safe from anyone or anything on the boardwalk--it would take some doing to get off the boardwalk, go underneath it, and find her nest.
. . . Today, though, I walked the other direction, in search of mugwort (found!). I didn't have my camera, but I did have my cell phone (very unusual for me to have my cell phone w/me, but today I did), so here is a cell phone photo of star-of-bethlehem wildflowers.
If I took a sound recording on the same journey, then as I walked along the boardwalk through the marsh, you'd hear--without fail--a frantic robin fly up from under the boardwalk. She's made a nest down there, and every time I walk along the boardwalk, she flies away in a panic. I hope she doesn't have high blood pressure or PTSD by the time she's done incubating her eggs.
The thing is, she's actually quite safe from anyone or anything on the boardwalk--it would take some doing to get off the boardwalk, go underneath it, and find her nest.
. . . Today, though, I walked the other direction, in search of mugwort (found!). I didn't have my camera, but I did have my cell phone (very unusual for me to have my cell phone w/me, but today I did), so here is a cell phone photo of star-of-bethlehem wildflowers.
