SWEET SMELL AFTER A RAIN!

      Yesterday afternoon before Friday night football and when it had started to rain, it took me back to a couple of fond memories of times gone past.

     The first was when playing football at dear old Laurel High, I remember that sweet smell of the freshly cut grass of the football field after an afternoon rain when first running out on the field.There was nothing like it except maybe fresh cut clover or alfalfa. 

      One other time was when attending an away game in West Lafayette, Indiana- Iowa vs, Purdue. Most of the college football fields in the 1980's had converted to artificial turf, but, not Purdue. When walking in the stadium and after an earlier rain, it was such a refreshing smell. It is funny how we can remember those insignificant and yet precious moments.