A long sword of sunshine stabbed at the twisting trail ahead. Its blade of lengthening light reached through a new opening in the overcast and slid between the season’s deep green leaves. By the time I’d hiked a mile, the expanse in front of me had almost fully brightened. As if laundered, the skies had quickly cleared since mid-morning with the arrival of a strengthening butter-colored sun on this initial day of summer. Earlier, I had noted a stubborn residue of overnight clouds that had concealed the constellations like a blindfold. Remnants still shuffled across the atmosphere, marring the far sky before ushering in the sunrise. However, nearly all those scraps of cloud cover finally had dispersed and dissipated in the daytime heat. After those passing storms, the scenery had rearranged itself, and everything resettled.
Landscape and Language
Landscape and Language
Landscape and Language
A long sword of sunshine stabbed at the twisting trail ahead. Its blade of lengthening light reached through a new opening in the overcast and slid between the season’s deep green leaves. By the time I’d hiked a mile, the expanse in front of me had almost fully brightened. As if laundered, the skies had quickly cleared since mid-morning with the arrival of a strengthening butter-colored sun on this initial day of summer. Earlier, I had noted a stubborn residue of overnight clouds that had concealed the constellations like a blindfold. Remnants still shuffled across the atmosphere, marring the far sky before ushering in the sunrise. However, nearly all those scraps of cloud cover finally had dispersed and dissipated in the daytime heat. After those passing storms, the scenery had rearranged itself, and everything resettled.