Light and Shadows

Abstract

In the shade of a group of trees the ground is dappled randomly with spots of light, some small, some large, but all regularly elliptical. If you hold a pencil in front of one o f these spots, the line connecting pencil and shadow will indicate where the rays of light that form the spot come from; they are, of course, sunlight that falls through some opening in the foliage: all we see here and there between the leaves is a blinding ray of light.

Oh, sun, when you move through the foliage of the high lime trees,

You drop splashes of light on the ground,

So beautiful that I dare not tread on them.

E. Rostand