Taste:

• milk chocolate
• fruit salsa
• Chengdu spiced lamb from P.F. Chang's
• ice cold water w/ sliced cucumber and a little fresh mint in it
• Popsecret's Homestyle popcorn with a little bit of pepper
• Fuji apples
• Diet Coke
• cinnamon
• tea
• caramel
• pistachios
• freshly picked red raspberries with a tiny bit of sugar sprinkled on top
• pumpkin turkey chili
• garlic
• butter pecan syrup
• salty ocean air
• the sweet rot in the air from fallen autumn leaves

Smell:

• cinnamon
• apple pie
• pumpkin pie
• old books, new books, musty books, dusty books, books...
• the ocean
• wet cement after a rainstorm
• the forest
• coffee, especially on an airplane
• bacon
• Midwest countryside
• crisp winter night air
• cedar
• the weird, mint-y smell of grocery stories in Cairo and Abu Dhabi
• sandalwood
• musky cologne on handsome men
• the desert on a hot, wind-less day
• Burt's Bees honey lip balm
• Lush's karma komba solid shampoo
• warm cotton

Hear:

• Bob Dylan
• the whistling wind in the Sahara
• the clicking/popping sound of the Ford Explorer's engine cooling off in the middle of the desert after a long drive
• thunderstorms
• the eerie silence on a snowy winter night
• the forest
• ocean waves
• my dad's laughter
• CCR
• Piedmont blues type of guitar music
• A cappella choir music
• The Penguin Cafe Orchestra
• classical guitar/Spanish guitar
• George Winston playing the piano
• the sound of pages turning in a quiet library or bookstore
• tree branches swaying in the wind
• the tent flapping in the wind on a camping trip
• running water

Touch:

• water
• Garfield's coat, especially the soft, silky fur between his eyes. (I miss him so much.)
• My mom's hands. I've never once seen her use lotion, and yet they've always been so soft.
• satin
• my hair on a good hair day
• my pillows!
• my bamboo knitting needles
• sand between my toes and fingers
• clean bedsheets tossed up into the air and settled onto my bare legs
• new softcover books with untouched, virgin spines
• a cotton scarf around my neck, or anything soft and/or gentle on my neck
• blue jeans straight out of the dryer
• "The touch, the feel, of cotton! The fabric of our lives!" :D
• Slightly sore muscles the day after a good workout or hike.

See:

• dawn (if I'm not tired and cranky)
• dusk
• dust devils in the desert
• handcrafted items
• the yarn section of an arts & crafts store
• mallards hanging out in the creek next to my building
• airplanes taking off or landing
• my parents smiling
• random acts of kindness
• thunderstorms, rain showers, tropical storms, snow storms...severe/bad/moody weather in almost any form
• the Shenandoah Valley
• the Piedmont region of northern VA
• The Appalachians, especially the Blue Ridge area
• the Giza pyramids peeking and rising from behind buildings as we cross the Giza bridge
• My friends doubled over in fits of laughter
• Wegmans' produce section, cheese section, healthy foods section, tea section...Wegmans in general!
• Wes Anderson films
• particularly handsome specimens of the male sex
• helicopters!