cheerless-brown

Updated: May 8, 2025

Along the roadside the green blades of grass have sprouted on the very edge of the snow-drifts. The pastures and mowing-fields have not vet assumed a general aspect of verdure; but neither have they the cheerless-brown tint which they wear in latter autumn when vegetation has entirely ceased; there is now a faint shadow of life, gradually brightening into the warm reality.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Buds and Bird Voices (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")