Silver Green

In the late 1950s, when Provence was still an uncharted destination, writer Lawrence Durrell rhapsodized about an enchanted landscape — vines that were "glittering silver-green bundles, or softly powdered by the gold dust of the summers," set against a "taut wind-haunted blue sky," wh ere the "great wines of the south sleep softly on the French earth." ❋ Lanie Goodman (2011)

On the hill below were a vineyard and a grove of silver-green olive trees. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)

She closed her eyes as the smoke wreathing her fingers turned silver-green and drifted down over Max. ❋ Diana Pharaoh Francis (2011)

I joined in the traffic speeding out of the City and across the bridge, enjoying the sight of the rich orange cables and spires contrasting against the glimmering silver-green water and the azure sky. ❋ Marta Acosta (2010)

Breathing hard, he leaned against the trunk of a tree causing some of its silver-green leaves to flutter to the ground. ❋ Joan Holub (2010)

The Engadine Valley floor was a windswept patchwork of silver-green fields. ❋ Davis Bunn (2010)

She was floating on her back, looking up into the silver-green leaves and black boughs of the massive willow. ❋ Stephen O’Connor (2010)

Just as she said the last word, the treetops shivered, flashing a brief glimpse of the silver-green underbelly of the leaves. ❋ Matt Dennison (2010)

He had crossed an open meadow and entered a higher belt of woodland, bushy and dappled with sunbeams on his left hand, deepening into forest on his right, when a grass snake, like a small flash of silver-green lightning, shot across the path almost under his horse's hooves to vanish in deeper grass on the other side, and the beast shied for an instant, and let out a muted bellow of alarm. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Grasses are flowering and many are setting seed, red and silver-green. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nell was standing by the silver-green trunk of a lone eucalypt. ❋ Kate Morton (2009)

Spring was too sweet, it made me melancholy, it troubled me with the balmy airs of evening, and fat buds opening fans of silver-green leaves on the candlebark tree. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)