1. Major League Baseball.
2. The smell of fresh cut grass.
I once attended a seminar about memory and they said smells were the number one memory trigger. I experienced that this evening when Bradley and I were driving home from gymnastics practice and we turned into our road, we could smell the neighbor's fresh cut grass and for a moment...I was reminded of being a kid in the summer, warm days and nights, staying up late and playing outside until past dark because there was no school. I remember when there used to be an amusement park at the Westgate Shopping Center and they had one of those huge spotlights. We could see the light in Weaverville and would be at our cousins' Pam and Melanie's house. We would play war spies and hide from the light.
Another smell that reminds me is cedar...it reminds me of my Granny. She had a cedar closet amoire and I remember the slight smell of cedar when I was around her.
What smells trigger memories for you?
2 comments:
I, like you, am reminded of my childhood when I smell the scent of fresh mowed grass. Sometimes, it even smells like watermelon to me. That takes me back to the times when, from a family of 8, we would sit around the front porch after a long hard working day in the garden, feeding the animals, working in the yard, and eat watermelon. My Dad would tell some of the funniest stories about him and his brothers and sisters. He was from a family of 10. Oh what memories those are.
I still live in the neighborhood where I grew up, actually right across the road from where I grew up. I can still hear the tractors that would be mowing the huge pasture and we would have to play ball in the road. Not much traffic back then, and the road was paved. Ev'ry kid in the neighborhood would show up to play. What great memories.
That is so true about smells Joan.
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