06/19/2019
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Bullerbü in spring
When spring comes, it's especially nice here in Bullerbü. Kerstin, this is Ole's little sister, likes to pick mint and camomile blossoms, because they are "danz wild", and she stresses that because mum forbids her to pick the flowers in the garden, because they are not wild after all. When it dawns in the evening, Papa lights a pile of leaves that we had raked together. "We want to make a little spring fire," he says. "Hooray!" and "How beautiful!" we all shout and dance and jump around the glowing fire. Later we lie on straw and hay around the fire, Kerstin sits next to me on an oak board and grinds mint and camomile blossoms between her hands and then holds her little fingers under my nose
This is how the beginning of spring smells in Bullerbü: The smell of leaf fire, the smell of dry hay and wood, fresh mint and bitter chamomile, which is probably so bitter because Kerstin had plucked stinging nettle leaves while picking. No wonder she cried like that at noon
A short time later, Lasse, Bosse and Ole pack a soft piece of beeswax from a backpack they had with them in the forest at noon. Bosse tells that they wanted to find out who was the bravest of the three and so they had climbed up a tree one by one to steal honey from a bee nest. A part of the nest had fallen down and they are now digging out this honeycomb. Of course Kerstin also wants a piece of it and she gets it. She dalgt the mint and camomile blossoms into the wax and gives me the lump.
For hours now I lie next to the slowly burning fire and smell the lump with Kerstin. At some point I don't notice the smoke and the hay anymore, but I wonder how long you can still smell the mint and the bitter camomile together with the wax. I think I could have that smell around me into autumn. Maybe even in winter to remind me how spring smells. This fragrance is not too strong either, but strong enough to be clearly noticed for a few nice hours.
Another hours later I only smell this wonderfully sweetly warm honeycomb lying on the oak board next to Kerstin and dream myself back into the day as we built a camp in the forest, fed the animals, played hide and seek with Ole's dog Swipp and finally danced around the fire like Indians, as Daddy shouted: "You've gone completely wild!" and Kerstin said "Yes danz completely wild! I think that's how all kids are in spring. Anyway, we kids from Bullerbü.
For hours now I lie next to the slowly burning fire and smell the lump with Kerstin. At some point I don't notice the smoke and the hay anymore, but I wonder how long you can still smell the mint and the bitter camomile together with the wax. I think I could have that smell around me into autumn. Maybe even in winter to remind me how spring smells. This fragrance is not too strong either, but strong enough to be clearly noticed for a few nice hours.
Another hours later I only smell this wonderfully sweetly warm honeycomb lying on the oak board next to Kerstin and dream myself back into the day as we built a camp in the forest, fed the animals, played hide and seek with Ole's dog Swipp and finally danced around the fire like Indians, as Daddy shouted: "You've gone completely wild!" and Kerstin said "Yes danz completely wild! I think that's how all kids are in spring. Anyway, we kids from Bullerbü.
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