time-grayed cabins

'Years pass by and leave things unaltered. The same narrow, red roads run through cotton- and cornfields. The same time-grayed cabins send up threads of smoke from their red-clay chimneys, doorways, and china-berry and crape-myrtle blossoms to drop gay petals on little half-clothed black children.'

'Julia Peterkin (1880'1961), 'Ashes,' from Green Thursday: Stories by Julia Peterkin, first published in 1924.