Orange Lessons
“If you’ve ever been lucky enough to visit an orange grove in March when the trees are in full bloom, then you’ve experienced one of the most delicately beautiful fragrances on earth. There’s really quite nothing like this scent, which is sweet, ethereal and somehow very fresh.” My mom reads this to us as we drove through the Florida countryside in early March. As we were driving with the windows down, we all had taken notice of the sweetest scent. It smelled like jasmine and reminded me the month I spent in India. My cousin Cathryn was leaning her head out the window and breathing in deeply, letting out excited proclamations into the sweet air about how good it smelled. We passed by orange trees and felt so humbled to see their growth and smell their sweetness. My mom started googling about orange trees and we found there are a lot of blogs where people love to write about the scent of orange blossoms. We remembered there were jasmine flowers in grandma and grandpa’s front...