Sad preacher nailed upon the coloured door of time

"... I had paused at a courtyard of lemon-scented spotted gums (Corymbia citriodora), standing about like so many tall and elegant legs in shimmeringly worsted stockings of silver, blush, titanium, flaxen, and rose-gold." — Ashley Hay, "The Forest at the Edge of Time", Australian Book Review October 2015.