Hints and tips:
...Friends dissolve into shadows. Copperhead is prescribed OxyContin for a football injury, and the delicate thread tethering him to a future snaps....
...They shared fragmented brushstrokes capturing fleeting light effects: snowscapes enlivened by coloured shadows and softening, blurring strokes, for example, in Pissarro’s “Snow Scene at Pontoise” and “Farm...
...We take the tractor out and have a picnic by a beautiful river over the ridge beyond the farm, or a different lunch in a different wood every day....
...The last of the summer days stretch the shadows of the umbrella pines, their trunks casting stripes across the parched Spanish earth....
...It looks like a Wales of rumpled ridges, oak and beech, gorgeous and rough. Following boar tracks, we plunge along, man and boy both suddenly five....
...Meanwhile, a stay in the claustrophobic, rule-bound city reduces Heidi to a shadow of her former self, so pale she is mistaken for a ghost....
...Hisham Matar Author of ‘The Return’ The Confines of the Shadow by Alessandro Spina (Darf) is a wonderful and rare book....
...The farmhouse lay on a ridge, and I stood outside. The farm’s two collies seemed willing for a moment to leave their bald tennis ball and consider the view....
...At Agrigento, five Greek temples are arrayed along a ridge overlooking the sea, in various states of romantic ruin....
...While sculpting the earth here, I discovered how light and shadow could be raw materials in the garden....
...That said, I was thrilled when at the sublime Blackberry Farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Tennessee this year, her BlackBerry couldn’t get reception. Hallelujah! Most memorable holiday?...
...But head even an hour away from the coast and you can enter a much calmer world, where country roads wind past pretty farms and forests....
...The massive “Roof Ridge of Frederiksborg Castle with View of Lake, Town and Forest” is audaciously composed of three-quarters sky, with horizontal lines of fields, lake, roofs punctuated by the shooting...
...As Michael and Anna Modimba, a couple who farm maize near Budalengi in western Kenya , explained, saving is hard....
...In the north it is bounded by a formidable ridge, running away from Arenig like a rampart....
...How robust that confidence is will become clearer on Friday when the monthly US non-farm payrolls data is published....
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