The next day it was glorious weather; depth upon depth of blue over-canopied the mountains; the sun shone wide; and the wind in the trees and the many falling torrents in the mountains filled the air with delicate and haunting music.

He walked down the street with a jaunty swaggering step, as if daring others less perfectly satisfied to intrude upon his good mood.

Thalias are herbaceous perennials with long-stalked, calathea- or canna-like, all-basal leaves, the stalks of which enfold each other toward their bases to produce false stems.

Eventually, Randy moved through the shock and began to see that anger was eating him alive and poisoning his life.