The smell of spring is in the air

Actually, that would be the smell of nitrogen, as area farmers are putting down nitrogen fertilizer to get ready to plant. For the uninitiated, nitrogen has quite the pungent smell. It smells a lot like cow shit, but not exactly. You should try it sometime. It really is the smell of spring, though -- when you smell nitrogen, you know that, in the field of opportunity, it's plowing time again: