Hints and tips:
...Regular overhead air traffic wouldn’t normally enhance a walk through a biosphere reserve, but whenever an incoming or outbound plane glints across the brilliant blue sky, it puts a spring in my step....
...To the south, the Langjökull ice cap looks like a hard cloud of fallen sky, glowing eerie green....
...In the distance rises the blue wall of the Patkai ranges, the Indo-Myanmar border....
...I have not seen how luminous blue or gold can be, I think, absurdly, before this Alpine sky framed by bright old larches....
...The blue and white medina glowed in the same creamy light Albert Camus loved in Algiers....
...A ragbag of scampish kids and squabbling dealers are duly dispatched into a Blue Ridge now menaced by a sky-high protagonist....
...The sky was no longer granite-clouded but gloriously blue. If only she had been closer to the waterfall and with her arm at a different angle. Jab! She had moved....
...Perfect conditions for bootlegging perhaps, less so for bootpacking up the final ridge....
...Posts, for example, have been dubbed “skeets” — a portmanteau of sky and tweet....
...We parked and walked the final several yards up to the ridge where a low table, set for tea, awaited us....
...The contrasting hues of her cap, jacket and apron against the kitchen wall introduce Vermeer’s typical palette of blues, lemon yellow, white, pearl grey....
...Blue sheep come to him here, he tells us, on the 15th and 30th of every month. Musk deer visit him from the higher peaks....
...Beyond the tree line, paja brava grass appears so evenly spaced that it looks planted, while from a distance it can make whole mountainsides appear yellow, which under an insistent blue sky call to mind...
...Conditions were perfect — bright sun, deep blue sky, deeper snow....
...As Amoud and Soulimane unloaded our stuff into one of its blue-walled rooms, I hastened up the switchback path towards the plateau....
...We are blessed with blue skies, warm sunshine and little rain. Once our legs acclimatise, we find ourselves rejoicing in the crisp air, beauty and serenity....
...Unlike the most prestigious Wall Street banks, which on the whole worked for blue-chip clients, Drexel’s closest ties were to ambitious outsiders....
...Once we hit the first summit, the Pic du Gar, and the path opened to blue skies, rugged gorges and dramatic green valleys between forested peaks, I understood another reason for undertaking this adventure...
...Although she was raised 200 miles away on the other side of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Kentucky, it was still Appalachia, the vast, ecologically rich region that sprawls from the north of Mississippi to...
...Bruce stares at the sky and sucks his teeth. Blue streaks have appeared by the time we snowmobile to the launch site on Gunnarsbytrasket lake. Helium rises at 400ft per 60 seconds....
...Or perhaps, by that point, they will be applying to Nasa’s new privatised Astronaut Corp: Bezos’ Blue Origin....
...“Landscape near Pontoise” is a natural harmony: bands of grey-blue sky, muted yellow meadow, green foreground with haycart, rickety fence and a path inviting us to amble into the painting....
...As we carefully crossed the pressure ridges between floes, we found ourselves in pearly white forests of piled-up ice....
...“It looks fine here on the east coast,” he says, under royal blue skies. “But are you ready for hell on the other side?”...
...From Thessaloniki, capital of central Macedonia, we skirt Mount Olympus, above which lightning rents holes through the baggy, sackcloth skies — not a good omen for our long-weekend walking trip....
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