olive-shadowed

Updated: May 4, 2025

The window gave upon a background of serrated mountain and olive-shadowed canyon, with a faint additional outline of a higher snow level the only dreamy suggestion of the whole landscape. The foreground was a glaringly fresh and unpicturesque mining town, whose irregular attempts at regularity were set forth with all the cruel, uncompromising clearness of the Californian atmosphere.

Bret Harte - From Sand Hill to Pine