Monday, July 26, 2010

I've Gone Green -- Come Along!


Things that Smell Like the Color GREEN


Cut grass
Limes
Chopped parsley
Paper money
The living room the first day you bring in the fresh cut Christmas tree
Spearmint chewing gum
Last summer’s canvas camping tent, this summer
Sprite soda
Tomato vines growing in a garden
An indoor swimming pool
Hot tea
New clothes from the mall
Crayola Crayons
A rainstorm on a hot, muggy day
The first day you open the windows and know Spring is here
Fingernail polish remover
Granny Smith apple peels
Cooking cabbage
Sliced watermelon....

And you awesome commenters added:

"Because I live in Mexico, salsa smells the most green (Yes, it's made from small green tomatoes so it's green.) and I love it!"  -- Clarissa Draper from Listen to the Voices

"Fresh veggies whether they're green or not. Dirt smells green to me...or the promise of green." -- Palindrome from Musings of a Palindrome

"Our hut. The walk to it and the bush round it. Just thinking bout it makes me feel homesick." -- Nicole MacDonald of Damsel in a Dirty Dress

"...dirt smells green to me too. So do apples and apple pie." -- Holly (Southpaw) at Holly Ruggiero

"...grasshoppers
mango skin
green bananas
marsh grass
lizards
tree leaves
fresh cut grass
fried green tomatos..." -- Lenny from Lenny's World

"Chorta! A kind of bitter spinach, silver beet veggie, eaten here in Greece, boiled, and smothered in olive oil and lemon juice. But be careful of the furry roots, they can sometimes catch you off guard! In Australia, the Greeks go searching the edges of public football fields for it :o) And they find it too!" -- Jessica from The Alliterative Allomorph

"Limes, but not just limes, limes in an ice cold corona, in a hammock, lying on the wonderful white sandy beach listening to the waves crash as I remain in heaven. Who wouldn't love the smell of green?" -- Jen at Unedited

"...I'd have to say a summer breeze coming through an open window." -- Karen Gowen from Coming Down the Mountain

"The smell of the ocean during an east wind..." -- Liza from Middle Passages

"Brussel sprouts and broccoli - 2 of my favourite veggies! Really :)" -- Jemi Frazer at Just Jemi

"Freshly laundered money and the saps who don't take the time to notice." -- Elaine Smith at WordSmithing

"did anybody say a really fresh salad? My husband is the salad master, and he makes the freshedst salads with celery and bell pepper... There are other colors, but celery and bell pepper are major green smells... :D" -- Leigh at That's Write

"Lettuce and spinach smell of green to me. :)" -- Lindsay (a.k.a. Isabella) of Adventures In Writing

"To me, green is freshly cut grass." -- Talli Roland.

"Green to me is the tall pines on a mountain." -- Patti Nielson

"I'd have to add the ocean, at least where I live. There's a subtle algae, marine life, humid scent that smells more green to me than blue (which is fresh laundry...for some reason, that's blue)." -- Wendy Ramer from On 'n On 'n On

"The smell of the Aussie bush after rain." -- Al from Publish or Perish

"Guacamole, Burning Sage although not exactly technically green, Green Apples, Clover, Anything that says it has a Rainforest scent, Pine, Fresh sprigs of spearmint or wintergreen, Parsley, Green Tea Leaves." -- Indigo at Shattered Prose

"Citrus groves. They smell intoxicatingly sweet in spring and fall, which is actually early winter in Florida. We have no fall. But the rest of the year they smell green." -- Terry Stonecrop of Gardner West, Private Eye

"Fresh basil and cilantro." -- Susan Fields

"For me, green apple gummies and summer :)" -- WritingNut from Writing in a Nutshell

"I guess I'd have to say, chardonnay, peppermints, and pine needles all smell green to me." -- Dominique of En Violet

"Mmmm...did somebody say fried green tomatoes...I loves them. :)  Spring smells green to me; new grass, tender plant shoots, damp earth." -- Lola from Sharp Pen/Dull Sword

"My faves from the list are cut grass and unripe bananas." -- Kelly Polark

"There are so many great things that smell green, but I think most of herbs and nature." -- Cherie at Surrounded by Books

"The smell of Fenway Park on a summer night watching a Sox game." -- Gardner West, Private Eye at The Hanky-Panky Season (I love this one! ~ Nicole)

"Turtle shells, empty, that you find on the shore of the lake...

Envy. I thought you all were WRITERS! ;) Envy smells green, the green-eyed monster, come on!

...Green pine cones. I'm not talking about the brown dried cones you find in wreaths, I'm talking about the tight-packed green suckers that are the WMDs of an East Texas Pine Cone War...

You get stung with a green pine cone, you know you've been hit...

...Moss, the kind you find in the lake up near the shore, that snags your hooks and covers your legs and your dogs when you go swimming, the kind you put on your head just for fun, and throw at your friend Amos who beaned you earlier with a green pine cone." -- Eric W. Trent from Digging With Worms (AWESOME answers, Eric! ~ Nicole)

"I especially agree with: rain and cilantro. Herbs smell green to me too. I've got a large green spearmint by my side door that's so bright right now." -- Michelle Teacress

"Green is my daughter's favorite color. Nature knew what she was doing, says Jen, when she made so much green!" -- Ann Best of Long Journey Home

"Green smells like an apple taken right off the tree." -- Amanda Sablan from All That Good Jazz



What smells like the color green to you?  Leave it in a comment and I'll add it to my list!

36 comments:

Unknown said...

Oh, green. What smells green to me? Because I live in Mexico, salsa smells the most green (Yes, it's made from small green tomatoes so it's green.) and I love it!

CD

Unknown said...

Clarissa~ Salsa definitely smells green to me, too -- more because cilantro smells green, though. (I've only made salsa with red tomatoes.) Green salsa sounds delish! I've got to try that!!

Hannah said...

Fresh veggies whether they're green or not. Dirt smells green to me...or the promise of green.

Jaydee Morgan said...

Hmm...I think you covered the things that smell green to me on your list already. However, I'm going to keep my senses open today and see if I can come up with anything else.

Unknown said...

Palindrome~ I'm with you on that! Veggies smell green, even the other-colored ones! Thanks for adding to the list!!

Jaydee~ I love to spend whole days concentrating on one sense. (I'm weird like that :O) One day, for example, I'll decide at breakfast to pay attention to sounds that day. I think I'll be on the lookout for other "green" smells today, too!

Nicole said...

Our hut. The walk to it and the bush round it. Just thinking bout it makes me feel homesick

Southpaw said...

Hannah dirt smells green to me too. So do apples and apple pie.

Unknown said...

Nicole~ Sounds like a wonderful place!

Holly~ I'm with ya! And, isn't it funny that many people visually associate the color red with apples, but scent-wise think of the color green?

Lenny Lee said...

green is a cool smelling colour! heres some things that for me smell green.

grasshoppers
mango skin
green bananas
marsh grass
lizards
tree leaves
fresh cut grass
fried green tomatos

Jessica Bell said...

Chorta! A kind of bitter spinach, silver beet veggie, eaten here in Greece, boiled, and smothered in olive oil and lemon juice. But be careful of the furry roots, they can sometimes catch you off guard! In Australia, the Greeks go searching the edges of public football fields for it :o) And they find it too!

Unknown said...

Limes, but not just limes, limes in an ice cold corona, in a hammock, lying on the wonderful white sandy beach listening to the waves crash as I remain in heaven. Who wouldn't love the smell of green?

Karen Jones Gowen said...

I immediately thought of cut grass but notice that's first on your list. I'd have to say a summer breeze coming through an open window.

Liza said...

The smell of the ocean during an east wind...

Jemi Fraser said...

Brussel sprouts and broccoli - 2 of my favourite veggies! Really :)

Unknown said...

Freshly laundered money and the saps who don't take the time to notice.

ALTERNATE REALITY ANSWER?

LTM said...

did anybody say a really fresh salad? My husband is the salad master, and he makes the freshedst salads with celery and bell pepper... There are other colors, but celery and bell pepper are major green smells... :D

fun!

Lindsay said...

Lettuce and spinach smell of green to me. :)

Talli Roland said...

What a great list!

Jemi, you are making me very worried... :)

To me, green is freshly cut grass.

Patti said...

Green to me is the tall pines on a mountain.

Wendy Ramer, Author said...

I'd have to add the ocean, at least where I live. There's a subtle algae, marine life, humid scent that smells more green to me than blue (which is fresh laundry...for some reason, that's blue).

Al said...

The smell of the Aussie bush after rain.

I'm sorry Tali, but I'm with Jemi. Brussels sprouts and broccoli cooked properly are fantastic!

Sage Ravenwood said...

Guacamole

Burning Sage although not exactly technically green.

Green Apples

Clover

Anything that says it has a Rainforest scent

Pine

Fresh sprigs of spearmint or wintergreen

Parsley

Green Tea Leaves

Kind of a refreshing exercise. (Hugs)Indigo

Terry Stonecrop said...

Citrus groves.

They smell intoxicatingly sweet in spring and fall, which is actually early winter in Florida. We have no fall.

But the rest of the year they smell green. At least when they aren't burning them after harvest:) Not at all green.

Terry Stonecrop said...

Oops! They don't burn the actual groves, just the fallen fruit and other garbage after the harvest.

Susan Fields said...

Fresh basil and cilantro.

WritingNut said...

For me, green apple gummies and summer :)

Kelsey (Dominique) Ridge said...

Smelling green, an interesting idea.
I guess I'd have to say, chardonnay, peppermints, and pine needles all smell green to me.

Lola Sharp said...

Mmmm...did somebody say fried green tomatoes...I loves them. :)

Spring smells green to me; new grass, tender plant shoots, damp earth.

Kelly Polark said...

Green is my favorite color. Love how you have so many things that smell green! My faves from the list are cut grass and unripe bananas.

Unknown said...

That was a ton of fun :) Thanks for the link added!!

Come by to see what Stella looks like :)

Cherie Reich said...

There are so many great things that smell green, but I think most of herbs and nature. Also, I wanted to bestow the Versatile Blogger Award to you today on my blog. I always enjoy reading your posts. They are fun, and I always feel I learn something too. http://cheriereich.blogspot.com/2010/07/versatile-blogger-award.html

Gardner West, private eye said...

The smell of Fenway Park on a summer night watching a Sox game.

Eric W. Trant said...

I poked through the list and see these are missing:

Turtle shells, empty, that you find on the shore of the lake.

Envy. I thought you all were WRITERS! ;) Envy smells green, the green-eyed monster, come on!

Green pine cones. I'm not talking about the brown dried cones you find in wreaths, I'm talking about the tight-packed green suckers that are the WMDs of an East Texas Pine Cone War.

You get stung with a green pine cone, you know you've been hit.

Moss, the kind you find in the lake up near the shore, that snags your hooks and covers your legs and your dogs when you go swimming, the kind you put on your head just for fun, and throw at your friend Amos who beaned you earlier with a green pine cone.

- Eric

MTeacress said...

I didn't realize so many things smelled green. I especially agree with: rain and cilantro. Herbs smell green to me too. I've got a large green spearmint by my side door that's so bright right now.
Have a great week. :)

Ann Best said...

Don't have anything to add. What a fun read. Thanks for taking the time to post these lovely snippets. Green is my daughter's favorite color. Nature knew what she was doing, says Jen, when she made so much green! She liked this.

Anonymous said...

Green smells like an apple taken right off the tree.