Last days of autumn, the first cold wind begins blowing through the valley, the perfume of wood smoke fills the air .. and only a few pigeons breakfast in the plazas. Tourists have now gone home and the city, fallen into winter lethargy, resembles some giant animal as it hibernates, awakening only from time to time for the holidays.
Silence, but for the cooing of a pigeon and whispering winds. This is Arco until spring thaw.
restless sleep
dreaming of summer mornings
latte and brioche
G.s.k. ’15
Bastet and Sekhmet's Library 
Lovely, Georgia, your prose is so poetic! I love the perfume of wood smoke…I smell this when I walk late at night here from the neighbours.
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It kind of typifies to me the perfume of winter … like orange blossoms of spring and cut grass in summer.
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Ah yes, well Spring for me is les Cabane à sucre et and summer grass as well.
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🙂 we have summer in common … cool!
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Et les croissants et cappuccino:)
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oui!
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I can smell the smoke !! 🙂
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So beautiful Georgia — really a very dreamy picture of winter in your town. Or — winter in so many other towns as they dream between tourist seasons 🙂
That wood smoke is pretty thick here lately though — yikes! So cold that it’s permeating everything.
Thanks for posting the MLMM Unicorn. 🙂
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Thanks jen and yes, most tourist towns are more or less like this I think … and the wood smoke is so common in these parts … really pretty bad at times if the wind doesn’t come up .. but guess it’s better than the city exhaust smog .. 🙂 no problem for MLMM … forgot to put what number the post was … oh well
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By this point I’ve totally forgotten about numbers … LOL…
Here the wood smoke gets so thick in town …. yuk …. it’s good in small doses, but in some areas the smoke just *hangs*. About a block up from “Edgar Ent” is a bad pocket. Not sure what’s going on with the air flow there! Have tried to get a photo of it – unsuccessfully — a low-lying cloud stretching from the houses to the streetlights. Will have to be in a haiku at some point — the house that’s the worst offender has that fireplace running year round it seems. :O
But hey, yes, it does beat smog 😉
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Sounds pretty yucky .. here people have wood burning stoves as well as fireplaces .. those sometimes go all summer long. Trento and Rovereto have a similar problem to what you’re talking about … we’re lucky to have our lake that pushes a lot of wind through the valley.
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Evidently there are some pockets in-town where the air simply doesn’t move. A bit scary, really! A nice lake breeze would be a good thing.
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A sort of smoke monster … yeech!
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Yeech is right….
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