Stowe notes, letters and verses . the ridge turned to a delicate metal-lic pink broken with innumerable blue shadows. Littlerose-colored clouds were low over the glowing woodsnorthwest, and the snowy top of Sterling was rose-tinted. The sun sank lower, and the Hogback lost its color,which, concentrating on the Sterling pyramid, grewbrighter; the delicate shoaling clouds were touched withpink and gold. Later, only a clear pale amber space in the southwest,and in it, on the margin and the melting blue, the even-ing star shone, scintillating frostily. The dusky andshrunken clouds, low over Mansfi
Stowe notes, letters and verses . the ridge turned to a delicate metal-lic pink broken with innumerable blue shadows. Littlerose-colored clouds were low over the glowing woodsnorthwest, and the snowy top of Sterling was rose-tinted. The sun sank lower, and the Hogback lost its color,which, concentrating on the Sterling pyramid, grewbrighter; the delicate shoaling clouds were touched withpink and gold. Later, only a clear pale amber space in the southwest,and in it, on the margin and the melting blue, the even-ing star shone, scintillating frostily. The dusky andshrunken clouds, low over Mansfield, were shreddedwith dull reddish streaks. In the woods the ferns are faded and shrunk away tograyish skeletons thin as shadows, and show like a yel-low dust among the dead leaves. The lilacs around houses are still in leaf, but from adeep blue-green they have faded to a brighter if moreyellowish color. Brown ferns in the pastures, soft and feathery, moreinteresting than when green. Trees, wind-shaken, grow Nov > ^ 1 ?l t. VERMONT 187 thin and leafless almost as you gaze. They toss theirarms and dance, like reckless prodigals shaking theirthinning rags. Their glory has departed, the glory ofgold and crimson, and soon they will stand cold andnaked, all the deciduous company—straight lindens,rugged maples, and the soft-skinned beeches. Though the night had every promise of a clear to-morrow, yet on waking I found the sky overcast. Thewind had risen in the night; I heard it moaning at anearly hour when it was still dark. It turned out to be asouthwest wind, and brought a beautiful sky crossedwith cirro-stratus clouds. Thin bluish veils lay behindthe heavier masses, and detached purplish clouds swamin the milky spaces, and among all shone little lakes ofblue ovals and of broken margin. The mountain tops have a peculiar appearance. Thestrong west wind of yesterday cleared the ridges of thesnow that rests on the eastern slope up to the line ofwind-darkened spruces, so that the
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