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Offline Norm

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« on: May 20, 2007, 03:33:13 pm »
I was down cleaning along a crick line when I noticed all the white color on our field the other side of it. I stopped what I was doing got out and was overwhelmed by the smell. The air was just full of the sweetest smell I'd had in a long time.

 

Have to admit I felt a little chagrined that I'd never gone down to that field in the spring and taken the time to notice.

 

I'll not make that mistake again.

 
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Re: Black Locust
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2007, 04:13:06 pm »
DanG, makes me want to buy a smellavision...
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Re: Black Locust
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2007, 04:26:20 pm »
Ours should be out next week.  Honeysuckle won't be too far behind.
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Re: Black Locust
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2007, 04:41:34 pm »
Hmmm, scratch-n-sniff photo galleries?
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Re: Black Locust
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2007, 06:23:10 pm »
Looks like you musta took out some bigger trees in the past and now have a lot of stump and root sprouts…yes it does smell nice.  I really like to mill fresh black locust, as it smells sorta like cinnamon or something cookin in the oven.  Makes me a lot hungry.
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Re: Black Locust
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2007, 09:03:01 pm »
Mmm, black locust lumber.  That's some DanG purty wood.  I wish I could find a nice log to saw up.  I love working with unconventional woods.  It's a shame that most people aren't aware locust lumber, but those springtime flowers are almost as nice.
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Re: Black Locust
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2007, 09:32:11 pm »
We...........the wife and I.............have often commented on how sweet the black locust are.......................some years.  Other years there will hardly be any scent at all;  wonder what the difference is?
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Re: Black Locust
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2007, 10:25:34 pm »
I love those sweet smelling pea-flowers :).  Who would think that it is in the pea family ???. 
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Re: Black Locust
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2007, 06:39:34 am »
You got it right Larry, it was an old pasture that went feral many years ago. I came in and took out all of the sawable trees and let it go back feral. I'm going to scrape it clean and plant beans for a couple of years to kill back the sprouts. After seeing how pretty it is I've reconsidered....well that was right up until I came to my senses and saw what bean prices were. :D
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Re: Black Locust
« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2007, 01:28:29 pm »
So THAT'S what those trees were!  On Monday I was traveling on I-80 and even with the A/C on the inside of the car was overwhelmed with (an almost sickening) sweet smell, and the interstate was lined with patches of trees that were flowering like that.  I never knew black locust flowered like that  :)
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