{"id":2135,"date":"2010-09-04T07:54:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T14:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2010-09-04T09:17:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T16:17:18","slug":"i-smelled-something-ive-never-smelled-before-and-it-was-wonderful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/i-smelled-something-ive-never-smelled-before-and-it-was-wonderful\/","title":{"rendered":"I smelled something I&#8217;ve never smelled before, and it was wonderful&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pruning the apple tree, I carried the clippings to a bin, and got a close smell of them. It was apples. It was the way good apples smell compounded with the smell of new leaves. If I could have gotten that scent into a bottle, I would&#8217;ve. I now vow the yard will never be without an apple tree, and I will happily put myself in charge of pruning. This little tree has 6 varieties of apple&#8212;6 grafted branches: Red Mackintosh, Golden Delicious, Gravenstein (which is included because it blooms slightly first, and the bees will carry its pollen to the other branches), Transparent Yellow, Fuji, and Gala. It&#8217;s a wonderful tree, and becoming a favorite. Of course Washington is a pretty good place for apple trees, but apple trees grow nationwide, are hardy beyond belief, and if you have to figure what fruit tree to plant, this is not a bad choice at all.<\/p>\n<p>The pond has developed a new algae. Lucky us. I&#8217;m going to do a water change today, though I hadn&#8217;t wanted to because of the temperatures, but this stuff is disgusting and I don&#8217;t want to let it proliferate. <\/p>\n<p>And the writing is going well. Nothing like a rolling rewrite to recover your focus. It&#8217;s like trying to do patterns on a tapestry: sometimes you need to back off and view the whole thing to see how they relate and how you can make it better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pruning the apple tree, I carried the clippings to a bin, and got a close smell of them. It was apples. It was the way good apples smell compounded with the smell of new leaves. If I could have gotten that scent into a bottle, I would&#8217;ve. I now vow the yard will never be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,11],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-gardening","tag-fiction_writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}