Some descriptions of southern European landscape

• The sun gobbles as the sky, ferociously bright and hot. The hungry sun, the lean and muscular sun.
• This tree is seven storeys tall. The detail of its million leaves would baffle any engraver.
• Dust blowzes over the road in spectral tan-coloured folds.
• The epilecting sunlight between and behind trees.
• The sky the colour in which seas and oceans are printed in atlases.
• The quality of shadow, rolled out slowly from this prone log by the sun, by the yard, for your inspection.
• Mountains tuck their tips into the pleats of the clouds.