If any of the old hand-hewn cypress shingles are loose in the lichened roof, this is when they go.
如果长满苔藓的屋顶上有任何旧的手工凿成的柏树瓦片松动, 这就是它们消失的时候。
夏日走过山间
Some are colored like the sky, bright as bluebirds, others gray like the lichened rocks on which they hunt and bask.
有些颜色像天空,像蓝鸟一样明亮,有些像它们捕猎和晒太阳的长满苔藓的岩石一样灰色。
优山美地
The main knotty trunk seems to be made up of craggy granite boulders like those on which it stands, being about the same color as the mossy, lichened boulders and about as rough.
For when the soft sluiceways of the skies opened and the lichened shingle roof shed the waters in a surge down the northwest sheltered corner of the house, I could strip and accept the benediction.