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

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

  Hills of the Shatemuc

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: When One Act Colors a Lifetime of Work

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

  Simon & Schuster: Three Stages of Amazement

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

  Simon & Schuster: Three Stages of Amazement

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

  Simon & Schuster: Amaryllis in Blueberry

• “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

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

  Simon & Schuster: Ominous

• “I am a child smelling his father's underwear I am an Indian sleeping on a scalp and my pony is stamping in the birches, and I've just caught sight of the”

  A real poem

• “FOLIAGE FACTS: The house is adjacent to a nature preserve; nearby trees include maples and birches.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Homes Near Fall Foliage

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