A green darkness of tree ferns, calla lilies, luxuriant basil, the great cutout silhouette leaves of what is known as a "delicious monster" plant, all overgrown their tubs.
Better to enjoy the slowness of Memorial Morning and Memorial Afternoon and Memorial Evening, the fireflies rising like very slow fireworks into the darkness of the trees.
Ms. Lee, accompanied now by the plucked-string noises of toads, dragged her end pin through the gravel and backed up a hill into the darkness of the trees.
I loved the mysterious darkness of the trees, the way they moved against the sky if there was wind — big and heavy movements, but delicate, too, in all the subtle, reactive leaves.
Parasitic eggs are always white, unlike those of some of their hosts, but egg size and shape may be more informative cues of identity in the darkness of the tree cavities or deep burrows in which hosts breed [ 6].
"Don't we owe people money?" Kath asked, as he pulled her by the hand into the darkness of a stand of trees.
Driving home with her mother one night, she saw them hovering in the darkness behind a cluster of trees, lower than a helicopter but higher than a car.
It was totally dark except for Pedro's headlight, but we could see narrow inlets, patches of darkness under trees.
Past the first hummock of trees, the darkness took on a light of its own and she began to distinguish the texture of the ground.
"Wherever it went, it travelled underground, in darkness, like a bushfire burning in the roots of trees.
