august break. day 25.

There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods–
violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds;
a snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue;
or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
-John Galsworthy