... and the first leaf of autumn fell from the sickamore tree...

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Ice... cold, dark, dreary... nothing dreamy about... it at all...

The snow fell around Ashthe white rose trees, I saytrees because that is how large and towering they had grown.
Not all of them where white, there where many of different shades and colours of the rainbow, including black ones... the rarest of them all alongside the golden and silver ones who bloomed but a few each century, and whose blooms lasted a millennium before wilting to a pile of gold dust which if planted would grow a century more and produce a millennium more flowers on their wide spread branches, creating a canopy of beauty that only the wildest of creatures dared to visit at any hour they pleased.

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