theBreeze

Hi Martha,
I thought John might like this personal FX observation, just for himself. It's sort of a message he'll understand as being directly from me to him.

Hi John,
Driving to work this Monday morning, about 5:30 AM, I had a somewhat pleasant experience that in a way made me realize a sign of Spring. I don't recall ever having made this particular observation as a sign of Spring, but I think it is one. Well, as I was saying, I was driving to work Monday morning. I glanced out the left side window and caught a fleeting glimpse of something really red.

"Roadkill," I said to myself, silently. It was a bit surprising, as I had not seen anything but one deerkill, and a red fox in several months. It's been steady-cold. In fact, I have seen no deer at all up until a week or two ago, alive or deceased. I've seen three since then, live, all in the morning, just before first light.

As I drove a bit further, I recognized a first sniff of something like the inside of a tire. Not unpleasant, just familiar. It immediately got stronger.

"Ahah," I exclaimed, outloud I think. "Skunk." By then, the aromatics had effused nicely into the car. That first aroma rapidly faded into the aftersmell that follows. However, it had been a very fresh kill, and as such, was not that greasy foul under-odor of a two-or-three-day-old-dead-skunk at nine o'clock of a Summer's night with the top down variety.

As I drove on, I thought to myself. Probably is a sign of Spring. Getting ready to make a new batch of skunks soon.