Delphiniums in the nursery garden, Hill Farm, July 7, 2013
FRAGMENTARY BLUE
Why make so much of fragmentary blue
In here and there a bird, or butterfly,
Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,
When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)—
Though some savants make earth include the sky;
And blue so far above us comes so high,
It only gives our wish for blue a whet.
~ Robert Frost, 1920
Leaves & Pages 
Really like Robert Frost, and the poem, but have actually come over here to tell you that I followed your reco for Something Light by Margery Sharp and have it on my blog today, so you might like to take a look: http://clothesinbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/something-light-by-margery-sharp.html Thanks – as you’ll see, I loved it…
So glad you enjoyed Something Light. It’s one of my very favourite Margery Sharp novels; Louisa *is* a darling! (With a keenly cynical eye nicely tempered by a kind nature.) 😉 Re: the clothes descriptions, I am always now on the lookout for something resembling the beechnut jewelry that Louisa is saddled with. I can envision it quite nicely…
Oh yes, I did actually look for a picture, that was such a nice theme running through it. And you could kind of imagine it in the kind of shop she finally found to stock it…
🙂
I love “It only gives our wish for blue a whet”.