birches

It was just past midday, but the light under the birches was a shadowed gold that made everything seem somehow hushed, almost enchanted.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

The birches were a darker hue of the same colour; hickories bright as gold.

Hills of the Shatemuc Susan Warner 1852

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

Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

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

Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

Slowly, I trailed my eyes around at the trees—oaks and birches, evergreens and maples.

Ominous Kate Brian 2011

Theo stepped, he stepped again, and soon he was outside among the birches.

Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

Theo stepped, he stepped again, and soon he was outside among the birches.

Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

The pine trees and maples and birches rise up in the moonlight like ghosts of forgotten soldiers, urging Dick toward death.

Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 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.

When One Act Colors a Lifetime of Work 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.

The Landscape of Pleasure 2010