The Field Notebook
Vol. IV · Field Notebook

On the smell of wet cedar

Notes
Mar 22
5 min reading

A short note on the smell that comes off the drying sheds after rain.

There is an hour, just after a shower, when the cedar planks of the drying shed release everything they have held that week — smoke, leaf-oil, the faint sweetness of the harvest.

A short note on the smell that comes off the drying sheds after rain.

We do not bottle it. We do not try. Some things are only honest in the place they belong.

— Weneora · field desk

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