golden hour

a time of the day when the light is soft and warm : FOUND IN :

grotesque

adjectives / groh-tesk / grotesques / grotesquely / grotesqueness fantasically bizarre If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being […]

heath

noun / heeth / heaths a wasteland of poor soil where only heather grows I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights)

hoary

adjective / hohr-ee / hoariness / hoarier / hoariest whitish-grey from aging There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one’s grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. G.K. Chesterton (What’s Wrong with the World) […]

lea

noun / lee / leas an open pasture laid fallow for grazing When I was a child I grew up by the River Lea. There was something in the water, now that something’s in me. Oh I can’t go back, but the reeds are growing out of my fingertips. I can’t go back to the river. Adele (River Lea)