Welcome to my perfumed garden

'home' is the greater St Louis area - i say greater because there's a county on the IL side of the Mississippi River that's functionally one big suburb of the city. there's also a town called Alton in that county that has this park with these beautiful old trees. you go there in the fall and shuffle through a carpet 6 inches thick of leaves - all reds, golds, and oranges - it's amazing. winter in that area tends towards a little more snow than the rest of the place, because it's so close to the river. seeing the park in winter is just amazing.

long comment, but that's immediately what i thought of when i saw that first picture - it gave me this 'coming home' feeling, which i totally value and treasure. so i owe you a debt of thanks! :-D

-bs