Paper shells

[Dean Romig]

It is proven fact that the sense of smell is the most powerful and influential sense that connects with memory.
Talk about nostalgia... whenever I smell the smoke from these old shells it brings me back to my youth - back to the fifties when I would walk out the kitchen door on my way to school on opening morning of pheasant season. On certain mornings the burnt powder smoke would hang low in a hazy layer over the meadows and cornfields and I would inhale all that I could and savor it as I listened to the closer pops and distant muffled banging of gunfire. I cherish those boyhood memories.