Lilacs & Pig Sh**t

[guzzirider]

This is an addendum to my Westport Loop.
It is the time of year whem the lilacs are in bloom.
The fragrance of driving down a back road lined with the bushes was olfactory glands pleasing but fleeting .
The problem it was also the season that farmers fertilize their fields with animal by-product.
That smell can hand in the air for 5km.
And yes it was from pigs! I am an old farm boy! I can tell!
The only thing I can think of that was more prevalant was the paper mill in Esonola and that may be long gone.

 

[ToSlow]

At least it isn’t chicken chit

 

[ifiddles]

Try being downwind form a mushroom farm...now that's disgusting...there's mushroom farm 6.4 km southwest of my school in Milton and on a windy easterly day, we can smell it as if we were next door...quite ripe I tell you...

 

[MacDoc]

Used to drive by that but always upwind

 

[PrivatePilot]

We live on the edge of farm country here in my neck of the woods so we get the manure smells still when the wind is coming from the right way. I consider it a sign of spring and am used to it, but it's always funny seeing the city-slickers who just moved to the edge of the burbs rushing to the community FB groups wondering what the heck is going on thinking a sewer plant exploded or something lol.