The 5 Senses

Wild Colorado: Wildflowers and the 5 senses

Look around and test all five senses. Take in the purple lupine reflecting the sun and a butterfly fluttering above the soft grass. Hear the sound of water rushing through the creek and the whisper of the breeze moving across the peaceful lake. Feel the sun on your face and the connection of foot to trail as you walk further from the trailhead, toward the waterfall you can see is crushing down out of the mountains. If I can make one suggestion as you embark on a wildflower hike, it's that you take your camera along. It seems a given, but here's the trick: Turn it to macro mode. Only take close-up photos. It will help you look closely and appreciate your surroundings — including the tiny bits. And for the particularly curious explorer, take along a wildflower book like “Rocky Mountain Wildflowers – Pocket Guide” by David Dahms. Taking a moment on the bridge, I breathe deeply and smell the fresh water galloping out of the craggy hillside. Opening my eyes, I chuckle when I watch a chipmunk and squirrel scramble nimbly across narrow trees perched above the raging current that looks like it'll swallow anything in its path. Suddenly, two birds zip out from under the bridge, chirping loudly over the waterfall, flying low and fast. On the far side of the lake, exiting the damp greenery of tall, strong, old pines, the sunshine beats down again. The sound of the falls fades and songbirds can be heard as I step into another field with an inexplicable scent. Dull pinks dots the landscape among the white and the green and the sage and the purples and yellows. The lake at its edge is the color of iron, broken by rich foliage creeping up the hillside. It's easy to take in the sights of the trail. But the smells of spring and summer are tough to describe. When you pay attention to all five senses, you get the full experience of being outdoors. The challenge is to come up with a description of scents and email it to me at jkurbjun@summitdaily.com. I'll publish the best blurbs in a future edition of Wild Colorado.

The 5 Senses – SIGHT « Reneewildes1's Weblog

Exactly.  Whether hopelessly clichéd, hopelessly ho-hum, or hopelessly vague, these are NOT exactly the stuff of legends.  Snoopy aside, once you get past wondering what the heck they’re DOING on a beach on a dark and stormy night, you can’t see a thing.  Even if he was a Navy SEAL and she was a bioweapons expert, and they were on that beach to intercept an illegal, deadly virus shipment that would destroy the world, with description like that, would you stick around to find out what happened?  Me neither.   An ornithologist or forest ranger might be able to identify a juvenile bald eagle, but a city girl on her first camping trip might just see a big brown bird and that would be okay.  She might be able to differentiate Marburg from Ebola, but she’s never seen an eagle before.  She might be able to spot an adult bald eagle and identify the white head and tail, unless she’s been living under a rock or never left the lab, but a still-brown juvenile? I write fantasy romance.  In my first novel, DUALITY, my hero, an empathic elven prince named Loren, and his white war mare Hani’ena, are riding through a swamp looking for Queen Moira, who managed to escape when the villains took over her castle.  Now think about how boring “Loren searched the swamp for Queen Moira” would be.  Here’s the scene in Chapter 9, in Reader’s Digest form:             To her credit, Hani`ena never put a foot wrong even though there was no way to see what the knee-deep pools of murky water hid.  As to her mood, however, her snapping tail and pinned-back ears were all the clues he needed.  Necessary the trip might be, but she was out of her element and not enjoying the experience.  All that soft, sucking wetness was not good for her hooves.  They needed dry country as soon as possible. Note the mixture of body motion and posture, descriptive words, and specificity.  Normally I absolutely abhor “description in a mirror” scenes to describe characters, I would rather have characters describe each other, but I broke my own rule in Chapter 8 of HEDDA’S SWORD, after Maleta is punished by her goddess Hedda for giving in to her human emotions.  I think it works.  See what you think:             Maleta stepped out into the well-lit hallway.  She stared with growing horror at the reflection in the mirror.  A stranger with her eyes stared back at her.  A pale stranger, pale as death, with colorless eyes and silver-frosted hair.

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