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Earlier in the month , the canyon bed would have been rich in flowers , but now only a few plants were still in bloom : little gold - poppies , their yellow flowers no bigger than rue anemones ; a bush of white ratany , its tiny ...
Earlier in the month , the canyon bed would have been rich in flowers , but now only a few plants were still in bloom : little gold - poppies , their yellow flowers no bigger than rue anemones ; a bush of white ratany , its tiny ...
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Their dark green foliage relieves the desert of any general grayness , even in the non - flowering seasons . ... a composite with inconspicuous yellow flowers , and brittle - bush or incienso , a greenish - gray floury - leaved shrub ...
Their dark green foliage relieves the desert of any general grayness , even in the non - flowering seasons . ... a composite with inconspicuous yellow flowers , and brittle - bush or incienso , a greenish - gray floury - leaved shrub ...
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It is a good place for my kind of idling — rambling about looking for rocks and birds and flowers , or gathering bits of geological and mineral and historical lore from my miner uncle . I find it pleasant to sit on the terrace towards ...
It is a good place for my kind of idling — rambling about looking for rocks and birds and flowers , or gathering bits of geological and mineral and historical lore from my miner uncle . I find it pleasant to sit on the terrace towards ...
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Contents
Something about Swans | 3 |
The Pleasures of Seconds | 21 |
Listening | 37 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Something about Swans: Essays |
| Author | Madeleine Doran |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0299061701, 9780299061708 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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