canescent

Updated: May 3, 2025

In the distance, the blue Pyrenees look like a bank of clouds; the air that bathes them shapes them into aërial forms, vapory phantoms, the farthest of which vanish in the canescent horizon dim contours, that might be taken for a fugitive sketch from the lightest of pencils.

Various - Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 : France and the Netherlands, Part 2