The backyard is thirty shades of green and another hundred textures, shapes. Look close: the feathers of astilbe, fern, the linen of the lilacs; velvet curled geraniums and stabbing points of ivy. Twinkling hearts of aspen, two-faced leaves of cottonwoods, and the crinkly filbert bad in need of ironing.
A blade of grass is a poplar to an ant.
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