Black squirrel in the pine above crimson azalea -- strange to northern eyes.
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oh lovely! I never cease to find the colors of the season astonishing, especially after the unremitting grey-browns of winter in a place without pine forest.
In the Iliad, she is described as the loveliest of the daughters of Priam (King of Troy), and gifted with prophecy. The god Apollo loved her, but she spurned him. As a punishment, he decreed that no one would ever believe her. So when she told her fellow Trojans that the Greeks were hiding inside the wooden horse...well, you know what happened.
oh lovely! I never cease to find the colors of the season astonishing, especially after the unremitting grey-browns of winter in a place without pine forest.
Posted by: elizabeth | May 14, 2009 at 10:24 PM