It arrived in the mail: a birthday package of Belle Aroma® Cherry Noir No-Mess Fragrance Tarts® sent as a teasing reminder of my first crush…a story this friend knows all too well.

My backyard was full of apple and cherry trees. I still remember the fragrance of them: green early apples, and, later in summer, the red Winesaps appeared. If we could beat the birds, bees, and worms to them, they made for some juicy offerings, and yes, some bellyaches for us greedier pickers. I was living the life of Jack and Jill as was shown in my first-grade reader.

Since I had to come inside, I’m choosing to duplicate the memory today by using my Bamboo Rain No-Mess Fragrance Tarts® in my Belle Aroma® Plugables® Mosaic Vase. Bamboo Rain fragrance top notes are Sandalwood (my favorite scent) and Musk. The base is Bamboo and Ozone. These No-Mess Fragrance Tarts are good for any low-temp scent warmers including the Belle Aroma ScenTrio® Petite Wax Warmer.

I don’t know about you, but the later we get into spring the more my mind goes to summer vacations! A few years ago, the phrase “staycation” was coined. While I love the idea of a few days at home where nobody makes any demands on you and you can stay in your pj’s all day if you want, I am talking about a real vacation. I have been to all but 4 states and have hopes of vacationing in 3 of them by Fall. But until then, I’ll be content reminiscing about some of my vacations from younger years.

Springtime in the Ozark Mountains is a beautiful time of year. The woods are full of the Dogwood, the state tree, and numerous Redbud trees dot the landscape. Even though compared to say, the Rockies, our Ozark Mountains are just hills, they still have a majestic beauty. At the moment, I am diffusing Mountain Air Belle Aroma® No-Mess Fragrance Tarts® in my Belle Aroma® ScenTrio® Tabletop Warmer.

My Belle Aroma Plugables® Fragrance Vase is beautiful. Mine is the pink and gold Mediterranean-style mosaic glass vase, which is designed to double as a night light. It’s plugged into my living room wall now with one Chocolate Lava Cake No-Mess Fragrance Tart and one Crème Brûlée. Warming the two together gives the impression that I’m baking a delicious dessert! Should you have a house on the market consider turning on your Belle Aroma Plugables® Fragrance Vase and freshening up your home before a showing. It will add beauty and home freshening at the same time.

Do you remember when it first dawned on you that water is a precious resource? We, in this country, are so used to turning on a tap and out comes pure clean water. That wasn’t always the case at my house. We were living in the foothills of the Cascade mountains in Oregon, and we had a crystal-clear stream in front of our house. But our well was rusty! It had a metallic taste and was discolored to the point that we couldn’t use it for drinking or doing laundry. This was long before the days of bottled water. What were we to do??

Our second summer in Oregon was in a word… sweet! My dad was a lineman for a small local telephone company. One of his customers had a mature Bartlett Pear tree that was loaded with the biggest, most luscious pears we had ever seen. The man told dad he could have all he wanted as his family didn’t want any. What kind of crazy was that?!?! Dad came home and asked mom if she’d like a bushel of pears. Of course, she said yes!