simple pleasure Saturdays 26 May 2007 03:30 pm
Oh yikes I forgot! Saturday simple pleasure…
This one is free: the smell of freshly cut grass.
It’s hay season around here and we live downhill from a large hay baling farm. It seems all the hay in the county has been mown, rolled into large round bales, and then loaded onto semi trucks to be hauled up our hill. There are probably 10 or so trucks a day going by, loaded with 20 or so large round bales, and then the next morning, the same hay, rebaled into neat little rectangles and shrink wrapped headed back down.
Add to it my boy, who has taken a liking to mowing the flatter sections of our yard, and the neighbors, bouncing around on thier riding mowers, and the air is constantly fragrant these days.
It’s a warm, summery scent, which together with the cool breezes and suddenly-lush shade that’s grown, has made for some beautifully stunning days this week.
It all makes May one of my very favorite months.
please share your simple pleasures in the comments, and if you blog it, be sure to link it! 
on 26 May 2007 at 5:33 pm 1.Erin said …
Oooooo…. How I love some freshly cut grass. There’s nothing better in the summer.
on 26 May 2007 at 7:47 pm 2.dalimama said …
I like the action of cutting the grass and how it looks when done. I am not sure if I love the smell… I’ll have to observe more closely the next time I mow.
I posted my simple pleasure over on my blog.