Wisteria

The Thinking Homeschoolers assignment due on May 15 is to write about a sound, smell, or taste that you find comforting or that reminds you of home. You can take this in any creative direction that you want.

For me the smell of wisteria means home. My earliest recollections include memories of sitting in my Grandma's porch swing. Behind the swing was a trellis loaded down with the purple blooms of a wisteria. I remember passing many a spring day in the porch swing inhaling the sweet perfume of the wisteria and listening to the drone of bees while reading a book.

We also had a wisteria at my parents house. Under it's spreading branches was a stack of bricks that I used as a oven, leaf press and anything else my imagination could come up with. It was one of my favourite places to idle away a spring/summer day.

Today I am lucky enough to have two wisteria down in the Whiskers Memorial Butterfly Garden. The delicate white and purple blooms are a lovely way to welcome spring to Mississippi.