I love to walk on a country road where only a few double teams have left a strip of turf in the middle of the track.
And I love the creaking of the sleigh runners and the snapping of nail-heads in the clapboards on a bitter cold January night.
In the first cool nights I love the sound of the first hard rainfall on the roof of the gable room.
And I love the smell of the dead leaves in the woods in the fall.
I love the odor of those red apples that grew on the trees that died before I went back to grandpa's again.
I love the fragrance of the first pink and blue hepaticas which have hardly any scent at all.
I love the smell of the big summer raindrops on the dusty dry steps of the school house.
I love the breath of the great corn fields when you ride past them on an August evening in the dark.
And I love to see the wind blowing over tall grass.
I love the yellow afternoon light that turns all the trees and shrubs to gold.