[Leica] Re: #10 Don's daily dose of southern spring

[Allan Wafkowski <allan@sohogurus.net>]

Now that you have mentioned Faulkner, I remember his allusion to a 
heavily scented night flower. Robert Ruark, too, wrote of a sensuous 
flower of the deep south. Both may have been the wisteria.

Allan



Tina Manley wrote:
> The smell of wisteria is what is amazing and you can almost smell it 
> looking at Don's photo.  Faulkner used the smell of wisteria as a 
> metaphor for the decaying South.  It's a heavy, intoxicating 
> grape-kool-aid kind of smell.  I picked some last week and they have 
> perfuming the house with the smell of the decaying South.  I love it.
>
> Tina

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