All right - I'll admit it. I am a very sensual person. By that I mean
that I perceive life experiences as a series of sensations - colours,
smells, sounds, feelings. The change of seasons is another such
experience.
Now it's spring - blue - blue skies, blue sea... but also green - a
countryside still moist from the winter though about to turn to
brown... but catch it now while it is still green, while it is still
Spring.
Spring is the smell and taste of fresh broad beans and white onions....
and strawberries... red and luscious. Oh yes, and our special type of
zucchini , round and fleshy - crying out to be hollowed and stuffed
with meat and baked till a golden brown on top ... filling the house with that rich smell of home cooking... the aroma of fennel seed... and rosemary on the roast potatoes.
Spring is the reawakening of the senses... the desire to start afresh - new life.
Only one drawback about Spring. If it rains it's a dusty rain - laden
with the sand of the Sahara ... turning everything an orange red.. but
that too is Spring.. that too is life.. that too is fertility.
