She was the fIrst person I had counselled that had died – and yes, the prettiest.
Brown, rolling hills with sparsely placed oak trees faded to flat farm land and small towns.
The roadside leading up to Giant Forest was pincushioned with trees faded brown – dead oaks, sugar pine, fir, incense cedar.
The evening sun in the highest leaves of the London plane trees faded, and the lights on the stage came up.
Not more than a hundred yards from where he stood, the desiccated trees faded into a tropical hardwood hammock, one of a vanishing few coastal hammocks that exist only around Florida Bay in Everglades National Park and parts of the Caribbean, including the Yucatan.
His photographs surveyed the everyday landscape from a distance and found tiny, telling details – soldiers running through residential streets, a union flag flying high in a distant tree, faded posters stuck on the reverse of a roadside sign – that reflected how the conflict had insinuated itself into the minutiae of ordinary life.
Where Gaga, Kanye and Nicki Minaj provided retina-scorching entertainment, the indie scene threw up awkward teenagers making music on laptops and hiding behind faded pictures of palm trees.
When the possibility of a battle had been suggested, some of his Tories had quietly picked up their arms and had faded quickly among the trees.
But soon his voice faded, and the lighted trees transformed into a myriad of colors, a reminder that the Purple One is indeed gone.
For example, you could feed the system a thousand images of stop signs — some faded, some obscured by tree branches, etc. — so that the AI can learn to recognize stop signs.
