Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of wood drifting down a stream, and he fished them out and fitted them together.

Heidelberg in May was foaming with fruit blossoms.

Mother Nature has backed off. We are looking at slightly better conditions in the forecast.

I liked the connection between art and nature.

With a bound, the sun of a molten fiery red cam above the horizon, and immediately thousands of little birds sang out for joy, and a soft chorus of mysterious, glad murmurs came forth from the earth; the low whispering wind left its hiding-place among the clefts and hollows of the hills, and wandered among the rustling herbs and trees, waking the flower-buds to the life of another day.

I was a spooky kid; that was just my nature.