zinnober

Updated: May 17, 2025

On the other runs the long brick wall of the garden, soggy, begrimed; streaked with moss and lichen in bands of black-green and yellow ochre, over which mass and sway the great sycamores that Ziem loves, their lower branches interwoven with zinnober cedars gleaming in spots where the prying sun drips gold. Only wide enough for a barca and two gondolas to pass this canal of mine.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women