orange-stained

Updated: May 31, 2025

The rest were arranged nearly in altitudinal size two large tadpoles being close below Guinevere, and a bevy of six tiny chaps lowest down. All were lightly poised, swaying in mid-water, at a gently sloping angle, like some unheard-of, orange-stained, aquatic autumn foliage.

William Beebe - Edge of the Jungle