Redolence

For weeks now it's been perfect springtime day after perfect springtime
day, and my Manny and I have spent many hours out touching new leaves,
listening to all the treetop mockingbirds singing for their sweethearts,
looking at all the different colors of dogwoods and tulips in bloom,
and smelling the lilacs buds as they begin to open. He says that they're
his favorite flowers, and after smelling them I can understand why.