A golden ray of amber piercing like sunlight through a barn window, illuminated motes of sawdust rising on woody aldehydes, old newspapers, dusty vetiver, orris root, dried leather harnesses and a faint touch of saddlesoap.
“The quality it had now, in fresh untempered sunlight, was neither faerie nor austere; the changing shadows of dusk and midnight had vanished with the darkness and the rain, and walls and roof and towers were bathed in the radiance that comes only in the first hours of the day, soft, new-washed, the delicate aftermath of dawn.” ― Daphne du Maurier
Art: Barn Interior by Worthington Whittredge, c. 1852
“The quality it had now, in fresh untempered sunlight, was neither faerie nor austere; the changing shadows of dusk and midnight had vanished with the darkness and the rain, and walls and roof and towers were bathed in the radiance that comes only in the first hours of the day, soft, new-washed, the delicate aftermath of dawn.” ― Daphne du Maurier
Art: Barn Interior by Worthington Whittredge, c. 1852