Post by Admin on May 5, 2016 8:33:51 GMT -5
Trail Notes
May 3, 2016
Greetings from S-bag,
The scent of magnolia blossoms fills the air. It’s a reminder that even though the daytime temperature feels like summer the season in S-bag Lake Resort is still spring. Magnolia trees have shed old leaves and their flowers shine bright against the contrast of new jade green foliage.
Gardenias are also in Bd and bloom adding to an intoxicatingly pleasant odor that’s as powerful as the smell of orange blossoms in March. In the tropic heat, floral fragrance seems to linger longer in layers of air. Maybe it’s the humidity that locks aroma in place with little drift on a still night. Or it’s traveling at the speed of golf cart that makes it possible to pass through an invisible bubble of magnolia or gardenia scent, fresh flowers popping open by the hour, their perfume hovering in the pathway. If only this S-bag spring scent could be bottled and sent to northern friends as a keepsake of their homes left behind.
With creamy white the featured floral hue, water lilies bloom along the lakeshore. The image of blue water, emerald foliage and bright flowers is as beautiful as Claude Monet’s famous French landscape painting, “Water Lilies”. And for summer residents, the scene is easily appreciated by simply walking along the beach or sitting on the boat dock.
Adding little scent but great value to the splendor of the view are cascades of white orchids gleaming in the shaded arbors of pindo palms and live oak trees. Plants refreshed with an inch and a half of rain in a recent thunderstorm.
Despite the long season of muggy and buggy, the folk who remain in S-bag year round know that it truly is another day in paradise.
Until next time,
Tummy Blkbrn
May 3, 2016
Greetings from S-bag,
The scent of magnolia blossoms fills the air. It’s a reminder that even though the daytime temperature feels like summer the season in S-bag Lake Resort is still spring. Magnolia trees have shed old leaves and their flowers shine bright against the contrast of new jade green foliage.
Gardenias are also in Bd and bloom adding to an intoxicatingly pleasant odor that’s as powerful as the smell of orange blossoms in March. In the tropic heat, floral fragrance seems to linger longer in layers of air. Maybe it’s the humidity that locks aroma in place with little drift on a still night. Or it’s traveling at the speed of golf cart that makes it possible to pass through an invisible bubble of magnolia or gardenia scent, fresh flowers popping open by the hour, their perfume hovering in the pathway. If only this S-bag spring scent could be bottled and sent to northern friends as a keepsake of their homes left behind.
With creamy white the featured floral hue, water lilies bloom along the lakeshore. The image of blue water, emerald foliage and bright flowers is as beautiful as Claude Monet’s famous French landscape painting, “Water Lilies”. And for summer residents, the scene is easily appreciated by simply walking along the beach or sitting on the boat dock.
Adding little scent but great value to the splendor of the view are cascades of white orchids gleaming in the shaded arbors of pindo palms and live oak trees. Plants refreshed with an inch and a half of rain in a recent thunderstorm.
Despite the long season of muggy and buggy, the folk who remain in S-bag year round know that it truly is another day in paradise.
Until next time,
Tummy Blkbrn
Admin was both impressed and flabbergasted! It is great to have more content on the website. This created an amazing word picture! Alas, it lost some of its impact simply because it overshot the mark and became *"purple prose". In making this minor criticism, I hope that the author will pull back just a little because she is a talented writer and I am excited to read novel content on the website. Thanks, Tummy for this effort!
*Purple Prose: In literary criticism, purple prose is prose text that is so extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw excessive attention to itself.[1] Purple prose is characterized by the extensive use of adjectives, adverbs, and metaphors.