As softly as …
What a place, what a time, the two idyllic years Durrell spent in Rhodes after the war. His account is...
Lamps as luminous fruits
I would love to find this street where the lamps are like luminous fruits bursting with knowledge. You would only...
Scant-leaved boughs
Looking out onto the winter leaf-bare boughs, I liked this autumnal image of apples shining like baubles on scant-leaved branches.
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Feeding & reading: nuts vs apples
Thoreau's observation on the pitfalls of eating nuts. However, the upside, as far as I gather, is that nuts are...
A coral coinage
What an exuberant description of wild strawberries! A coral coinage with the berries singing not only in batches, but in...
Of cornelian cherries
We often read of 'cherry-red' so I found it refreshing to find cherries described as resembling the red of cornelian,...
Brittle-looking lorry
I imagine a clapped-out lorry with rusted, flaking panels, paint-stripped by the endless sun. And watermelons for thirsty Maniots reminds...
A dancing class for trees
Something utterly comforting about orchards, especially old and haphazard ones. But I never thought of them as a dancing class...
Pulling apples
Wordsworth uses this term several times - apparently an obsolete term for picking or gathering apples.
'We pulled...
Watermelon casks
We were working our way through a watermelon even as I came across this quotation. Never thought of them as...
Of sunlight and apricots
George Eliot refers here to the joy of childhood which we often don't remember consciously, though it is woven into...
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