Smelling the... lilac

Recently, a good friend of mine who recently took on motorcycling was telling me that one of the benefits of riding his machine was that he could smell whatever was floating in the air as he was passing by. He sure couldn't do this when he was driving his car, even with windows rolled down. Right on, welcome to the club, I thought; this is exactly what we get when we mountain bike, run or just walk around our neighborhood.

The sad news, here in Utah, is that the air is far too dry to conduct scents into our nostrils as well as is the case in normally humid climates like in most other places around the world. These days, with lilac still in bloom, we get a morning whiff of their delicious scent as we run by a row of lilac tree near our house and that feels really special!