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[ellajam]

Hi, WJ, I enjoyed being taken on your trip. The whole of it has a softness that is luscious. A few notes below.

We eased the canoe ashore
and smelt the car’s air freshener
differently.
I ended on pine but I enjoyed reeling through the scents that are used artificially but sometimes stumbled upon in the woods.

Pepper roamed the woods
with a lazy tongue, collar clanging great image
warnings to the untrained squirrels.I think you could lose "the".

Father set up our tent
in a needle bedded clearing
while I tended to the plumbing
in a hole out back.

A cliff near our camp
jutted straight from the water,
so we cooled off in the waves
of a twenty foot plunge.
I'd prefer "so" gone, maybe with a change in the punctuation, but further, you might consider

A cliff near our camp
jutted straight from the water;
a twenty foot plunge
*the cooled line reworded as you see fit*

Just a few thoughts while reading, thanks for the invite to your moment.