Sense of Smell

June 1

I am thankful for the sense of smell. Although not having to deal with bad smells might be considered a good thing, good smell is delightful and bad smell can warn us of potential problems. Smell is also directly related to the sense of taste, one of my favorites things.

This is a photo of Dana, a donkey owned by a friend of my sister in Round Rock, Texas. She was taken at a wide angle to enhance and distort her nose and snout and add a comical look.

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“stop and smell the roses,”

said the man in the striped suit

“for if you don’t you will miss

life’s delicious juicy fruit”

“i tried to do that

sometime a while ago,”

said the man in the dungarees

“it did smell very good though

but when i got closer to smell

i got a nasty surprise

a thorn pricked me sharply

right there in between my eyes.”

© rt tulley