wind-played

Updated: June 26, 2025

These are the best bedchambers the high mountains afford snug as squirrel-nests, well ventilated, full of spicy odors, and with plenty of wind-played needles to sing one asleep. I little expected company, but, creeping in through a low side-door, I found five or six birds nestling among the tassels.

John Muir - The Mountains of California