pinions

LeVisqueux dumped the contents of his knapsack on the floor: a rope, some pinions, a pair of pulleys, and a stack of nylon tote bags with drawstring tops.

The French he translated as “my heart is full of your image”; the Italian, as something like “t’ward thee my thought unfurls its pinions.”

“The pinions and junipers are just above the dormant phase as far as the amount of moisture that they have right now. They’re just barely staying alive, so that’s very concerning for us,” Hecht said.

Forest Service plant pathologists Angel Saavedra and Maria Newcomb recently performed post-mortem examinations on a handful of the dead pinions at the state park, hoping to find the cause.

He delighted in their precision, their complex interlocking parts, the ratchets and pinions and springs.