Today’s suggested WordPress word on Discover Prompts is… “Scent”.

Now, my olefactory sense is not the best. Right up there with my sense of taste – which is pretty crappy. So you are not going to read in this blog about a lot of my personal experiences with scent. Except possibly the odor of fire. Somehow, at least earlier in my life, I could wake up smelling smoke from a small dumpster fire a block away, or a mattress in the barracks smoldering due to a cigarette from some airman that fell asleep smoking.

One smell that is at this moment a topic of conversation with our family as we are self-isolated at my Son’s house is… wait for it… baby poop! I have a new grand daughter who is almost two months old, nursing and not yet on any food other than milk from her mother. And, big surprise, baby poop doesn’t really have a strong, unfavorable smell until they start food other than mother’s milk. Not sure why that happens, but the worst thing so far is just the sight of baby poop that has leaked out of the diaper, through the swaddling blanket and formed a small cake on the front of my shirt around midnight.

The Discover Prompt suggests writing about the smell of wild flowers. Again, I’ve gone out and searched for Spring wildflowers in the Arizona desert everytime I’ve had a chance. But, I’ve never smelled them. I’ve also spent three hours over the past two days looking through my iPad and iPhone for photos I took of those flowers. A visual depiction of the vibrant colors of desert wildflowers found in the hills north of Phoenix would do wonders in describing for you what I found, but didn’t really smell. No scents nonsense, as it were.

Anyway, no luck with the flower photos. So – done for today and on to the next Discover Prompt.