Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards of billowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recently brought her from Atlanta.
And they stood in a beech-wood that had just put on its first green, where the woodruff at their feet sent forth its fragrance, and the pale-red anemony looked so pretty among the verdure.
In the end, these exquisite gold and russet displays help deciduous trees recover as much as 50% of the nitrogen and phosphorus from their old leaves to help grow fresh new green ones in the spring.
We've had sort of 10 days of frost in a row, but we've started to have warmer days and everything is suddenly leaping forward and you're starting to see all these green shoots coming up.