afternoon-a

Updated: May 14, 2025

The gray road descended slowly into a valley, already filled with the long shadows of the afternoon-a valley of ripening crops laid out in lozenges of green and purple and gold, like a harlequin suit, girdled at the waist by the blue ribbon of the river, a cap of green and purple where a clump of young oaks perched jauntily on the bald contour of the distant hilltop; above, a sky of blue flecked with saffron and silver like a turquoise matrix against which the tall poplars marched in stately procession, their feathery tops nodding solemnly at the sun.

George Gibbs - Madcap