My kind of uncle
Wouldn't you love an uncle who could walk up and down both sides of a straight ladder, especially the part...
Brown-bronze wood frog
Thoreau seems even more partial to frogs than to fungi, and observes them with tremendous patience and sympathy. I liked...
Finger-cold evening
A great way to convey a chill in the air cold enough to affect the extremities. Also like the idea...
Wild-looking grass
One of the landscape changes of recent years is the steady return of wild-looking grass where previously there were endless,...
Sawyer-like strain
Having always associated 'sawyer' with Tom of the same name, it never occurred to me that, like many surnames, it...
Towing a sinking ship with a canoe
A clear portrayal of something being unequal to the task, Thoreau uses this maritime metaphor to describe words which strike...
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...
Of facts and poetry
Having also tried various neat distinctions which inevitably crumble in the face of precise examples that don't fit, I liked...
Dancing leaves
They do spin and pirouette in a gusty autumn breeze, and I liked this reference to a rag blown in...
Rainbow-like belt
Surely, I could bestow such a belt on a character in a story?  And those 'brilliant-colored points or cones', garlanding...
Glaucous-green field
I found myself wondering just what shade of green is glaucous, and learning that it is either 'a dull greyish-green...
News then, and now?
John Steinbeck's analysis of the nature of news at the height of the Cold War resonates still, drawing attention to...
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