When the wind blows...

[LynzM]

You can sometimes smell the pine trees.

Discuss.

[Bertha Venation]

1. It blows here today.

In Southern Maryland, where the average high for year-end is around 40F, it's 70F with a balmy breeze. I can't smell pine trees but I can smell wonderful warm air.

Sigh. :)

:hi: L.

[LynzM]

3. Nice!

We were at about 55-60 today, also ridiculously, unseasonably warm! I almost never smell pine trees from our house, but I was sitting on the front porch and the wind was blowing just right to bring the smell over from a few neighbors' up the street...

:hi:

[GOPisEvil]

2. Oh hell yeah!

It's my favorite part about getting out into the sticks where Madrone lives. (Other than seeing her of course. :7)

[LynzM]

4. Indeed!

I love a pine grove or forest! :) This was just a bit of the smell from up the street, where there are some pine trees, but nice nonetheless.

Getting out in the sticks is nice! :hi:

[GOPisEvil]

16. There's just something about a cool evening with the smell of pines.

It's just so...nice. :)

I'm heading for the sticks this coming week. I am looking forward to it for a number of reasons, one of them is the trees. :hi:

[fizzgig]

5. that smell is one of my favorite things about the mountains

there are plenty of pines here in town (i can see at least a dozen from where i'm sitting), but the smell isn't nearly as good

[LynzM]

7. Yeah, I really love it....

Whenever we settle "for good," if there isn't already a pine grove, you better believe I'm going to be planting one! :)

[trof]

6. Hang your head over, hear the wind blow

Down in the valley,
Valley so low.

[LynzM]

8. I. Love. That. Song.

Eastern Regional Choir, sophomore year high school. The first time I got to sing with full men's tenor and bass sections. I was alto, standing right in the center, in front of the men. When they sang that song, I thought I could have fallen back and the music would have caught me. It was incredible. :D

[trof]

9. It's been my earworm for the last 5 minutes.

woops

[trof]

10. Oh yeah, I understand how you feel.

I sang in chorus, glee club, ensemble in high school and college.
I went from high tenor (high school frosh) to baritone (junior).
In some pieces I could sing bass.
When it's done well, it's awesome.
You describe the feeling well.

If I had gone to Yale I just KNOW I could have made The Whiffenpoofs.
;-)
Do you like the 4 Freshmen harmony?
My favorite vocal group.

[LynzM]

11. Sweet...

I did Eastern Regionals several years and CT All-state one year (reputed to be more difficult to get into than all New-Englands, though I never tried for ANE). I was mostly and alto, sometimes tenor or low soprano if needed....

I stopped singing when I got to college, and have regretted that ever since. :(

Never heard of the 4 Freshmen... will look them up! :hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. One of the greatest places on the planet

is the ginormous pine forest that begins just north of Santa Cruz and runs north nearly to San Francisco. From many points along I-280 you can look west at a sea of trees, but being in it — the smell, the sound, the fingers of sunshine — it's like absolute peace.

[LynzM]

13. That sounds truly fantastic.

Some year, dude, some year... I will make it back to California. :hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. Witness:

[LynzM]

17. Beautiful.

Some year, we're doing *my* road trip... :D

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. it cries for Mary

http://www.youtube.com/v/rf-Mtd2A1DI&hl=en&fs=1

After all the jacks are in their boxes and the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
Footprints dressed in red and the wind whispers mary

A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterdays life
Somewhere a queen is weeping somewhere a king has no wife
And the wind it cries mary

The traffic lights they turn of blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sails downstream cause the life that lived is is dead
And the wind screams mary

Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past
And with this crutch its old age and its wisdom
It whispers no this will be the last
And the wind cries mary

[LynzM]

20. ... so sad...

I'll watch that when I get home...

[lizziegrace]

18. We lived in Connecticut when I was very young

I remember the pine trees and my father flying a helicopter over the house (he was in the National Guard). Not much else.

:)

[LynzM]

22. I didn't know that...

Where in CT did you live? :hi:

[lizziegrace]

26. In the early 60's, my dad had just gotten out of the Army

and flew helicopters in the CT National Guard. He was an engineer at Pratt & Whitney in Hartford. :hi:

We moved to Cincinnati when I was in preschool and stayed there until Jr High.

[Tikki]

19. Thought I'd nick in with this song...ya know..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op-BEg5728A



Tikki

[LynzM]

23. Cool

I'll check it out when I get home :)

[meegbear]

21. When the wind blows...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EbsrJuAoQo

[LynzM]

24. Heya dude

How's life treating you? :hi:

I'll take a look at that a bit later, when I'm home!

[meegbear]

25. Cool!

I'm doing OK thanks. :hi:

It's a rather dark cartoon, but interesting. And a cool soundtrack!