okra: Paling Autumn

My lunch hour was particularly pleasant this afternoon. It was cold out, but the sky was very clear and the sun was bright. The warm sunlight filled the kitchen while I ate my grilled cheese sandwich.

The sun was streaming in on my Amaryllis. It was a clarified and paling autumn light. It filtered through the glass, and through the papery red petals of the flowers, displaying their fine nets of capillaries.