Sentences with phrase «as a tree across»

We took pics beside a tree with bright pink blossoms, as well as a tree across the road with white blossoms.

Not exact matches

The sound of chain saws began to fill the silence that spread across San Juan late Wednesday afternoon as firefighters began to remove trees and used small bulldozers to lift toppled concrete light posts.

Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans stunned by a hurricane that crushed concrete balconies, twisted metal gates and paralyzed the island with landslides, flooding and downed trees vowed to slowly rebuild amid an economic crisis as rescue crews fanned out across the U.S. territory Thursday.

Having witnessed the death of my own dad, killed while falling off an extension ladder and having a large oak tree land across his mid section, bounce onto his chest, then bounce across his temple as it came to rest, he was gone.

That young redbud tree delicately budding in my front yard in early spring, that golden haze in which the rolling hills close to my home are bathed on a summer morning, that lovely pond on my walk home from work out of whose rushes a red - winged blackbird almost invariably flies up as I pass by in early autumn, that winter belt of trees across the street transformed by an ice storm into a glittering fairyland — all those beauties of which nature is so achingly and serendipitously full are likewise my modest sources of healing and renewal.

I don't want to come across as some sort of smart guy, but in reality Jesus was probably a stone worker, there aren't that many trees in that part of the world.

I ran across a thought along these same lines this morning as we stand upon the threshold of a new season: «The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let things go.»

We sat under a scraggly tree, and had to continuously move around the base of it to stay in the shade as the sun moved across the afternoon sky.

As I drove around this week, blossoms were falling from trees and floating in the air as the breeze dislodged them, then dancing across the streets like tiny ballerinaAs I drove around this week, blossoms were falling from trees and floating in the air as the breeze dislodged them, then dancing across the streets like tiny ballerinaas the breeze dislodged them, then dancing across the streets like tiny ballerinas.

Emerald green glittering butterflies are seen to fly across the label which prominently features the South African mopane tree (Colophospermum mopane) commonly known as the Butterfly Ttree (Colophospermum mopane) commonly known as the Butterfly TreeTree.

Not a tree, not a single tree, interrupted the crushing loneliness of the Bolivian Altiplano as Scott Peterson and a Jeepful of other Mormon missionaries rolled across it, carrying the message of their prophets to a village of a few hundred Quechua Indians.

As boys Pedro, Ramon and Jesus, the youngest brother, who is a pitcher in the Red Sox organization, would throw rocks across the ravine toward an abandoned house tucked behind trees and bushes.

As you come across them, buy several tiny trees and invite kids over for a tree - decorating party.

Back when our ancestors were climbing trees and jumping across rocks and escaping predators as hunter - gatherers, their babies and toddlers literally clung on to them for support and protection.

As homeowners across the lower Hudson Valley clean up after Tuesday's storm, many are left to assess the risk of trees on their own property.

«Chestnut trees are a vital part of healthy woodlands and long stood as a symbol of healthy communities as well, here in Erie County and across the eastern U.S.. Then, communities nationwide were stricken and watched helplessly as blight took these magnificent trees by the millions across decades, leaving lone sentinels dotting the landscape where thousands of their counterparts had flourished,» said Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz.

Recently planted palm trees lie strewn across the road as Hurricane Irma passes by on Sept. 10 in Miami Beach, Fla. Wilfredo Lee / AP Photo

When the scientists analyzed the genomes of 80 birch trees from across Europe, they discovered a rich array of selective sweeps in genes that influence important qualities such as tree growth and wood production.

The results of this research could «impact our understanding of wind - based damage, such as the destruction by the recent Hurricane Irene,» he says, which toppled trees across a large swath of the northeastern United States in September.

Photo: Kevin T. Smith For some, an unwanted reminder of Hurricane Sandy that crashed into the East Coast as megastorm of the century is a big tree uprooted, lying across the yard — If lucky, missing the house.

Originally, Cajuns merely exterminated these slugs as pests who preyed on spotted owls.This was done by ringing trees where the spotted owls roosted with Alka - Selzters, and when the slugs raced across the tablets, the carbon - dioxide gas generated by the interaction of the slime and the Alka - Seltzer would gas them to death.

As the climate continues to warm and produce more severe droughts, fires and tree die - off events across the western United States, the potential for widespread vegetation - type conversion is becoming increasingly plausible.

«With the rise of ecohydrology as a discipline, we can now work across scales — from the individual tree to the mountain stream — to see the actual effects of species change in relation to climate.»

Natural resource managers and biodiversity experts are becoming increasingly concerned about invasions of weeds such as leafy spurge, which has swept across Western landscapes, and the melaleuca tree, a major threat to ecosystems in Florida.

This development, which is part of the land's recovery process, has raised new fears that the trees will leech water out of the ground, threatening water resources across areas such as the Edwards Plateau.

The tree also provides a baseline to test whether diurnal, or daytime, activity, a common butterfly trait, evolved much earlier than scientists previously believed, possibly at a time when bats» spread across the planet, as a means of escaping these and other nocturnal predators, Kawahara said.

Analyzing the distribution of trees across the basin, they found that fire - related savannas can dominate the flooded parts already when rainfall drops below 1500 mm / year, whereas in other parts rainfall as low as 1000 mm / year can be tolerated.

(A) Average BS across all branches of species trees from varying input data as in Fig. 2, ordered left to right from lowest to highest values.

Forest soils across New England will store fewer nutrients and metals — some beneficial, some harmful — as climate change prompts maples and other deciduous trees to replace the region's iconic evergreen conifers, a Dartmouth College study finds.

Moreover, such large trees are very useful for future studies of large - scale evolutionary patterns, such as how early placental mammals dispersed across the continents via land bridges that no longer exist today.»

The participants took part in a memory test known as the «Treasure - Hunt Task», where they were asked to hide items around complex scenes (for example, a desert with palm trees) across two «days».

Although the program included a large number of species across China as a whole, they found that the majority of individual forests were planted with only one tree species, such as bamboo, eucalyptus or Japanese cedar.

As North America chilled, «tropical trees there started dying off and the oaks were able to spread across the continent,» explains co-author Jeannine Cavender - Bares, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Early flowering plants are thought to have been woody — meaning they maintain a prominent stem above ground across years and changing weather conditions, such as a maple tree — and restricted to warm, wet, tropical environments.

And while other factors — like where birds lay their eggs and how many they lay at once — weren't significantly related to egg shape across birds as a whole, they could be important within certain branches of the bird family tree.

The aircraft finally took off, in pouring rain with all of us on board as it lurched and hiccupped perilously across the tree line.

Tree species that are already at the southern end of their range, such as balsam fir, quaking aspen, white spruce, and tamarack, are expected to decline over the next century while American basswood, black cherry, eastern white pine, red maple, sugar maple, and white oak may gain suitable habitat across the landscape.

To calculate changes in carbon storage they examined 321 forest plots across the Amazon's six million square kilometres, identified and measured 200,000 trees, and recorded tree deaths as well as growth and new trees since the 1980s.

Building on methods they used to assess the impact of hurricanes such as Katrina, Gustav, and Rita on forests and tree mortality, scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have produced a rapid mapping of the disturbance intensity across Puerto Rico's forests with the help of Google Earth Engine.

Combining their evolutionary tree with freezing exposure records and leaf and stem data for thousands of species, the researchers were able to reconstruct how plants evolved to cope with cold as they spread across the globe.

Rouillard also states that there is plenty of potential supply, as trees grow across eastern Canada and in the northeastern US as well.

I suppose since I loved playing outside in the yard, swinging on an old tire swing that my dad had created by nailing a great big board across between two huge, old trees and tying a rope and an old tire onto it, and wandering through the woods as a child... perhaps that is why I still love digging in the dirt.

As I sit typing this post, I look across to the window and see the sun shining and the light softly hitting the top of the tree where the leaves have already turned from green to yellow.

Q. Paul Kohner was thinking out loud about the idea of a movie of Hemingway's «Across the River and into the Trees,» which would be directed by John Huston and might star Robert Mitchum as the old colonel and you as the young contessa...

He one of the most reliable performers currently working in British cinema, and it seems the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, as his daughter Jaime is (along with the likes of Juno Temple and Imogen Poots) one of the brightest young actresses to emerge in recent years across the water.

My fears seemed to be confirmed in the first few minutes Favreau's film, as it begins with jittery close - ups of young «man - cub» Mowgli (newcomer Neel Sethi, who's neither a standout nor annoying like most child actors) running and jumping across tree branches in the jungle.

After a mildly perilous journey across the sea (It's very cold, and one very nearly doesn't fall to his death), Soren and his band find the tree and meet Ezylryb (voice of Geoffrey Rush), Soren's hero who tells the young bird that battle is not as heroic and glorious as he might have heard in stories.

In between, there's a crusade to bring down a male teacher that her stepbrother Luke, played by Joey Morgan, has accused of molestation as well as a Thelma and Louise-esque escape attempt, with Luke and Erica speeding across a Joshua tree - punctuated landscape in a stolen Saab convertible and dressed in clothes seemingly inspired by Floridian retirees — Erica in particular has a penchant for flamingo - colored sunglasses and palm - tree prints.

Looking across a group of Engagement Trees also brought attention to swells and dips in both individual and community engagement, such as a week where a student was very obviously trying to catch - up on work missed from the previous, or a predictable drop in collective activity during Spring break.

Objectives covered: Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals Identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores Describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals including pets) Identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense Distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made Identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock Describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties Observe changes across the 4 seasons Observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies ALSO ADDED: Individual assessments for ALL science objectives for ALL year groups are available for purchase as are individual year group, KS1, KS2 or complete Primary packs.