feathery

After the rich and hearty stews of winter, I am craving lighter textures and brighter flavors, and everything I see — little green peas, thin spiky asparagus, feathery fronds of fennel — I want.

Captured by Ann Johnson Prum’s high-speed cinematography and macro lenses, the hummingbirds are simply stunning: otherworldly creatures of shimmery hues and feathery beauty.

Returning to the trail, with its soothing chorus of crickets, velvety laurel sumac shrubs and feathery wild grasses, something inside me loosened.

These feathery needles rhythmically dance back and forth on sweeping branches in gentle breezes.

It’s about the way that trees, when viewed from below, seem to became one with the sky, reaching endlessly with feathery fingers into the unknown.