How does the author use imagery in the novel, Winds of Blame?

Rushing is capable of using words to paint vivid pictures of the landscape of her native Texas. She describes a hillside of wild flowers as "a long slope thickly spread with yellow butter."

Mesquite is described as gnarled "with its spreading, twisting black branches and on sunshiny morning in May its drooping lace leaves of soft gold." In addition, some west Texas dialect, usually "translated" for the reader, and figures of speech add authenticity to the time and place of the novel.