THE FLAVOR OF THE MONTH- APRIL

April blooms like a flower, doesn’t it? It slowly unfurls into soft days where the sun coaxes us to let the freshening breeze into the house and where rain drops hang like pearls in the budding woods. In the fields, new growth works its way up through the mat of last year’s grass, pressed down and flattened by the snow. The sun draws the green up and with it a heady smell. It smells of wet earth and growing things, grass clippings and barbeques, and something else. I don't know the word for it. That is the smell of April Blooming. I prefer it even to the rose. It is fresh in a way that makes the heart swell.