Straw-bonneted mothers
A warm, lively image of a Sunday morning family stroll to church.
'Dandy fathers and brothers, and straw-bonneted mothers, shepherd...
Rain-washed sky
There’s a clarity and endlessness to a sky that’s been cleansed by rain. And ‘bruised by the light’, what a...
New-peeled light
Like a fresh, dazzling morning after a long night, a new lease of life, an awakening … I like this...
Grape-blue landscape
A darkly overcast day with louring purple-stained clouds, and a storm brewing, until you read the context in which Lee...
Rich-painted caves
One sentence and tens of thousands of years of habitation and decoration.
'This is an old stretch of land whose...
Deep-wooded creeks
An evocative image of deep-wooded creeks, especially when you imagine people bound for America, often forced to leave, looking upon...
Whiz-kid’s attic
I love this image of a tech-clever kid's attic. Could be computers, train sets, microscopes, anything. May every whiz-kid have...
Toast-warm brick
A reference to Dublin, and another angle on the colour of bricks.
'Largely built by the English as a place...
Silver-antlered deer
A striking metaphor for bicycle handlebars ranged alongside each other against a wall, like the interlocking of deers' antlers.
'......
Tin-blue haze
Tin-blue – I’d be hard-pressed to describe this, a kind of dark-grey-blue with some mauve in it?
'In the bay...
Good strong tea
A novel way to signal strong tea, its being so solid that it can support a mouse's weight. The more...
Glassy-blue shoreline
Glassy blue suggests bright blue eyes, and you can imagine the sea washing up azurely.
‘The islands are spread over...
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