I'm thinking of beloved places like the crystalline swimming hole beside the pasture in the Berkshires, or the trail fragrant with wild raspberry bushes in the Adirondacks.
Tarquin comes into the dark room, trailed by fragrant purple smoke.
I bet you'd be surprised to find out that it's not round-the-clock massages, trails of fragrant petals leading from the front door to the jacuzzi tub and bouquets of flowers "just for the heck of it".
After landing our dinghy, we headed up a designated trail through a fragrant orchard, past metre-high termite mounds and rugged cliffs.
A trail winds out through the fragrant burrobush, sage, and creosote, out from the edge of the dirt lot to the rim of the canyon, where it drops down through a steep side wash.
At Connemara Ranch, 5900 Bonsall Drive, Malibu, (310) 457-5838, Talley Hutcherson keeps a stable of 20 spirited but otherwise benign steeds for guided trail rides over the Malibu hills, fragrant with wild fennel and revealing stunning views of the Pacific.
Historic buildings are getting a makeover, ugly structures of more recent vintage are being removed, and new trails have opened, some passing through fragrant eucalyptus groves or leading to magnificent bay overlooks.
Bashing through the back country with Mr. Des Rosiers was grand, but striding on an empty trail tracked by previous skiers through a fragrant pine forest, grunting up hills and speeding down the backside made me recall why I loved this Norse invention, said to be 4,000 years old.
Leading first through fragrant eucalyptus forest, in which you can spot koalas, the trail then weaves through paperbark woods dotted with the endangered swamp orchid, which flowers from August to October.
After exiting a thicket of fragrant autumn olive trees, we crossed a road and followed the freshly painted trail markers -- turquoise diamonds, turquoise being the Highlands Trail's color -- into a scenic wildlife management area.
