Ice Plant

A thin coat

Sparklers Grass

Skeletal

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Burst

 

   "A thin outer sheath, sometimes hard sometimes soft, often of such beauty that ones breath is taken but even more often read as the map, in its entirety, of a lifetime. This thin outer sheath is too soon and too easily lost to the elements."

                 From  "Walks on Old Borders"   by  Ibn Reisuli
                                                  ca 1779