#leafy trees

[littlepawz]

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.

~Virgil A. Kraft~

[rjptalk]

SUMMER TREES, SOME ARE NOT

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[writinginvirginia]

"Leafy trees"

The one literary description that incites something in me, for better or worse, is "leafy trees." I've seen it in a few books, but my first, and most memorable, experience was in Disenchanted by Leigh Goff.

I met Goff at a book fair in Northern Virginia and loved her premise. It's a retelling of the Salem witch trials, centered in Wethersfield, CT. I'd just visited there for a wedding and found it beautiful, enchanting even.

Long story short, it's not. I threw it onto the coffee table at around a third the way in. It sat there untouched until it was picked up again during a party. The best, and possibly only, way to properly consume this book is to hear it projected with partially intoxicates gusto.

I don't know what it is about the phrase "leafy trees" that infuriates me. Possibly the redundancy, or perhaps it's the use of "leafy" to describe anything but an ent, dryad, or other treefolk.

[irlbobbyhill]

i love trees 

trees are very important and i love them