#283: Silver birch
‘She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face and fond of dancing.’ – C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
‘She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face and fond of dancing.’ – C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
Are you prepared to enter?
‘To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.’ – Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
Leith, Edinburgh
‘One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy’ – Traditional rhyme But don’t worry, a second magpie for joy was there too in the background!!
Just something I spotted, walking along Marylebone Road on my way to visit a client.