Birches

It was just past midday, but the light under the birches was a shadowed gold that made everything seem somehow hushed, almost enchanted. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)

The birches were a darker hue of the same colour; hickories bright as gold. ❋ Susan Warner (1852)

Across the dale, sunbeams raced over the flanks of Chapel Fell, lighting up the yellowing birches and hazels and flashing across the mirror surface of West Slit dam, whose stored water powered the hydraulic engine in the valley below. ❋ Phil Gates (2010)

The double doors leading to the courtyard were propped open, revealing a world of birches, flowers, wooden benches and a multi-spouting fountain. ❋ Carol Edgarian (2011)

I am a child smelling his father's underwear I am an Indian sleeping on a scalp and my pony is stamping in the birches, and I've just caught sight of the ❋ Unknown (2009)

But apart from the saunas, the similarities are striking: Finland has the same flat landscape, the same crisp air, the countless lakes, the fir trees and birches, and the fragrant wildflowers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“The reds from maples, oranges from sugar maples, yellows from birches, purple from beeches, all mixed in with the dark green of conifers like pine and hemlock. ❋ Joe Yogerst (2010)

The pine trees and maples and birches rise up in the moonlight like ghosts of forgotten soldiers, urging Dick toward death. ❋ Christina Meldrum (2011)

FOLIAGE FACTS: The house is adjacent to a nature preserve; nearby trees include maples and birches. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"It's reminiscent of the Danish forest and the tall birches." ❋ Unknown (2010)

We have a number of artworks up on the walls: an Alan Lee print of Olwen daughter of Ysbaddaden, a quilt square, a pair of masks, a watercolor of birches in fog, an old poster from Williams College advertising a debate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Theo stepped, he stepped again, and soon he was outside among the birches. ❋ Carol Edgarian (2011)

There were purple savannas of heather, dark pine forest, and groves of birches that glistened in the sun. ❋ Christopher Andersen (2011)

Slowly, I trailed my eyes around at the trees—oaks and birches, evergreens and maples. ❋ Kate Brian (2011)

No other camping is allowed – leaving the yurt field, with its silver birches and water lilies, all to yourself. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In another series done in 1980 at the MacDowell Colony, she photographed her body fusing with a stand of birches, as though re-enacting the myth of Daphne, who was changed into a tree by her mother to escape the clutches of Apollo. ❋ Richard B. Woodward (2011)

The black nodules of his sprinkler system clicked in the muggy air, and in one of the peeling river birches, a single nighthawk warbled. ❋ Unknown (2010)

" [I'm here] [birch]." ❋ Big Bird 3320 (2015)

"Well don't get mad at me, birch! You could have answered your own question if you searched first." "My girl has been [birching] at me since she got home. I don't know what [the deal] is, but the birch needs to [settle down]." ❋ Jack Krabitz (2007)

"[imma] [go] [birch] her." ❋ Mc. Grabby (2010)

Man 1: Josh Allen said the n-word on twitter back in 2012 when he a junior in high school! What a totally racist asshole! Man 2: Dude, EVERYONE has said stupid shit at some point in their life, ESPECIALLY high schoolers! I'm not going to chastise someone for something obviously nonsensical they said as a dumb kid, where the only difference is that he was unfortunate enough to say it in a place that saves everything as opposed to normal face to face conversation. Especially when it's totally a coincidence it only came out after he became famous. Quit birching and get a real fucking hobby. [Sean Schemmel]: [Vic Mignogna's] a homophobic piece of shit! Dragonball fans: Hey Sean care to say anything about that leaked audio of you saying a homophobic slur while doing Goku's voice like 10 times in 9 seconds? [Sean Schemmel's]: Hey that's not fair, this stuff is only valid when I'M not the one getting birched!!! ❋ Assey McGee (2019)

[Ben] " Is that Birch over there?" [Mitch] "I wish I could be as [cool as] Birch. ❋ Dope Ass Dan (2016)

[Elly], [I see you] have exceeded the budget for your credit card this month. Go cut a switch for yourself and [prepare yourself] for a birching. ❋ Canem (2009)

I am gonna get [birched] [tonight]. You're [getting] birched, we are ALL getting birched. ❋ Jaxaltol (2020)

"what [are you] . . . [chewing on] [a stick]?" "No, I'm birching." ❋ Richard Seguritan (2007)

"Girl, you my birch" "Ain't gonna' [cut down] this [birch tree]" "[Beyonce]" ❋ V0mitt (2014)

That [skank ass] birch won't [give me] [my mother] fuckin money. ❋ Domizan (2006)