strawberry blonde:

There was a subtlety, an unshouting elegance about her, that was especially attractive in one so young.

For example, in the chapter Feathered Dinosaurs, we are told that some dinosaurs may have been endothermic because the Chinese theropod Sinosauropteryx possessed nonaerodynamic feathers, each of which, like modern bird feathers, seems to have been composed of a central rhachis and branching barbs (p. 241).

Round the broken top of the tower the ivy bushed out, old and handsome.