Grape-blue landscape
A darkly overcast day with louring purple-stained clouds, and a storm brewing, until you read the context in which Lee...
Tar-dark hair
A surprising rendition of blackness, until you think of pitch-black. And here is Zeus again having to balance the requests...
Bright-tinted shrubs
Autumn alights with bright-tinted shrubs. And yes, you need to be on the alert to perceive their full beauty.
'A...
Of cornelian cherries
We often read of 'cherry-red' so I found it refreshing to find cherries described as resembling the red of cornelian,...
Ink-stained sky
Yesterday a storm-front passed towards the lake (Léman) and France, and from our window, we saw its 'ink-stained sky'.Â
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Ocean-grey eyes
A lovely description of a woman's eyes but a woman who has a certain transparence to her, not a particularly...
Silver-plated water
I have seen beaten-bronze and copper-coloured water, but never silver-plated.
'The cool, placid, silver-plated water at even coolly awaits the...
Pink of old roses
Musty pink makes me think of an old breed of faded rose, or a soft-worn damask, or one of the...
Eyes like …
I have never seen violet eyes, though I have a recollection of someone describing Elizabeth Taylor's as being of this...
Plum-coloured distances
A splendid colour wash of distance, along with that enamelled sea and the scrolls of snow.
'Beyond the...
As blue and as vague as …
A beautiful image, blueness and vagueness likened to 'unmapped lakes', and these, referring to eyes, being misted over with the...
Seal-coloured sea
How many colours to describe the sea? I have never come across seal-coloured – a sleek, deep grey-taupe. But search...
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