The council goes on to declare its distress about "the excesses of the village mourners":... elaborate curb-stones, green marble chips and florid gilt lettering disfigured the general appearance of the churchyard.
6-8 frozen, prepared globe artichokes, defrosted 2tbsp large capers, rinsed 12-15 stoned green olives, chopped 2tbsp chopped parsley For the dressing 1tbsp good-quality tarragon vinegar 2tsp Dijon mustard 1 clove of garlic, peeled 2tbsp olive oil 3tbsp vegetable or corn oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper First, make the vinaigrette.
Consider "Autumnal Archipelago (Storm)," which in Robertson's version begins like so: Suddenly the walker comes upon the ancient oak: a huge rooted elk whose hardwood antlers, wide as this horizon, guard the stone-green walls of the sea.
Its landscape, characterised by stone walls, green fields and unforgiving coastlines, is redolent of mythology, folklore and magic.
Behold the great mass of the thing, standing prouder than a neolithic stone, with green prairies beneath and billows of bright fog streaming off the hills and breaking around it like waves.
WITHOUT touching on the environmental issues, the commission generally applauded the building design, with rough-hewn stone walls, green columns sprouting from the ground and angular metal roofs meant to suggest origami or birds' wings.
Although the original Blarney Stone isn't green, green is meant to signal the "luck of the Irish".
And among the formal tiaras, some of them historic pieces, were rivulets of diamonds from a necklace running through the hair or a brilliant-cut diamond Alice band, decorated with dangling stones: asparagus green peridots with pink and green tourmalines.
Even as they walk amid the stones of Green-Wood, Mr. Andolora's cast is wary of stepping on them, at least metaphorically.
