"Lawrence" wrote
Even a few drops on your glove or shirt and
you will never stop smelling it.


Funny how we have such strong olfactory triggers. Things that, when we
smell them, take us back to that moment in time.

When I smell the black smoke of a diesel engine ......

0500 ............ Morgan City, Louisiana ............. 1975 ........ first
light of a glowing golden sunrise ............ the workboat I'm on hitting
the gas and casting off the lines ....... pulling away from the dock into
the Atchafalaya River for a run to the ocean and two months of living at sea
................ big plumes of black smoke from the stacks that quickly
disperses as we gain speed and the breeze moves the black cloud
.................. hard left, and down the river ..........


Steve