Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html