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Conger Reynolds correspondence, February 1918
1918-02-07 Conger Reynolds to Emily Reynolds Page 5
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saw in an art gallery. We had followed the highway up from the river valley. At the crest of the slope it led away a smooth white ribbon flanked on either side by bands of green grass overlaid with speckles of dead leaves and framed by rows of white birches with a background of green firs and brown leaves of the scrub oaks and last-year ferns. So it was for two kilometres, as colorful and unified as any landscape an artist could want. Then the road dipped downward and we were in another village where the white of the walls glistened in the sunlight. It was a little valley town, stretching beside the highway in only
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saw in an art gallery. We had followed the highway up from the river valley. At the crest of the slope it led away a smooth white ribbon flanked on either side by bands of green grass overlaid with speckles of dead leaves and framed by rows of white birches with a background of green firs and brown leaves of the scrub oaks and last-year ferns. So it was for two kilometres, as colorful and unified as any landscape an artist could want. Then the road dipped downward and we were in another village where the white of the walls glistened in the sunlight. It was a little valley town, stretching beside the highway in only
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