29 July 2024
I did an early run at Minihaha Creek. Our summer, which after an exceptionally dry winter and spring, has been relentlessly moist, continues in its steamy mode. So morning is the time to run, when the temperature is still in the 70’s.
It was pleasant to run, feeling the air, heavy with water, slip by me. I feel immersed in it. And I notice smells a lot more. A lot of things are blooming, and though I don’t have a very sensitive noise, I notice that the scents shift as I run: here it is sweeter, now I get a bit of mildew, and later a the scent of wild roses, one of the few flower scents I recognize. A bit later I catch an acrid whiff of marijuana, no doubt drifting down from a car stopped along Minihaha parkway. It makes me appreciate the floral and herbal scents all the more.
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