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<\/a>Catching the sun's gold...<\/p><\/div>\n
Today at lunch I walked down a street lined on both sides with Ginko trees, those marvelous creations with branches lined top to bottom, end to end in gold.\u00a0 Ginkos are hung with such distinctively unpleasantly pungent fruit to keep them humble lest they become proud for being garbed so splendidly.\u00a0 These trees today were half finished with plenty of leaves on the tree, as well as on the ground forming a carpet on the brick sidewalk.\u00a0 The effect was just as brilliant and eye catching as the scene this morning.\u00a0 Both then and now the sun was shining directly on something bright, further highlighting the already vivid colors.\u00a0 This Ginko cathedral pleased me so much that I walked several blocks to where it ended, then turned around to walk back down the shimmering nave again.\u00a0 Like a regretful pilgrim leaving Notre Dame (some places in the world are painful to have to leave, they’re so beautiful, so wondrous, so other<\/em>), I kept stopping and turning to look back and see the high leaves (the trees were 50 feet tall; some of the tallest Ginkos I’ve ever seen) in different lights from different vantage points.\u00a0 Since the sun shone on the trees from behind me as I walked up to the altar, I had to keep turning around to see the glory as I walked back.<\/p>\n The cathedral's gold leaf<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The just-over-the-horizon sun this morning lit a landscape of late fall trees in and around a brilliant green golf course and a cluster of white houses with rust red roofs amid more brightly-leaved trees.\u00a0 The whole scene was laid out … Continue reading <\/a>