Sentences with phrase «dead leaves»

Must be the crisp autumn air and the smell of dead leaves.

My friend hides his rifle, covering it with dead leaves.

Clear away dead leaves — With the end of a long winter, there are bound to be some leaves in the yard.

On the living branch where the team found their first specimen, there were dead leaves hanging on strands of silk 2.5 metres up from the forest floor.

Something about Season 2 of The Walking Dead left me wanting.

In one of the few such studies, scientists examined how dead leaves, roots, and other plant litter decay over a decade.

Even though building in areas that are known fire zones, and the build up of dead leaves in the forests does play a role in the fires, pollution also has a lot to do with them.

Each autumn, around 5 - 8 kg of dry, dead leaves fall into every metre of woodland streams.

My daughter is just 3 so she hasn't yet had big opinions on her room, although come to think of it just today she collected a handful of dead leaves from the ground and wanted to use them to «decorate» her room — is this how it begins???

On the contrary, the lesson of the Bible seems to be that nations are swept away like dead leaves and that occasionally, almost by accident, one might endure rather longer.

Eventually though, the cooler weather and changing leaves (granted I live in the South and the fall foliage pretty much goes from green, to yellow, to a muddy brown and then boom — dead leaves littering my still uncovered pool) win me over and I start thinking about cinnamon, nutmeg, and yes — pumpkin.

Remove dead leaves near the foundation and gutters; they lead to dampness, which fosters mold.

The maintenance of crested geckos and dead leaf chameleons, in particular, is nearly identical to that of dart frogs.

It's the smell of dead leaves after a soaking rain.

Your tread will be even more important during the autumn months when wet, dead leaves cover the roadways!

They are on sale at most nurseries and with a little attention (regularly prune dead leaves and flowers) will bloom well into the fall.

But his drive found a sprinkler head, kicked dead left and landed behind a tree.

I'm sure we'll have to watch the boys closely to make sure they don't eat [too many] dead leaves, and monitor their big sister even more closely so that no one takes a stick in the eye.

Suspect realizing that the deceased was almost dead left him and took away his two iPhones and a tablet.

Acidic compounds such as tannin and phenolics also are favored, and their presence in shed dead leaves prevents their consumption by soil invertebrates.

While using their pedipalps — the appendages next to their mouthparts — to vibrate dead leaves, they also create an audible thrumming sound.

«This is a fungus very well - adapted to colonizing senescent or dead leaf tissue once conditions are right,» Leonard says.

Dead leaves collect in the crooks of branches, creating little pockets of soil in which ferns, mosses, and bromeliads grow.

Heidi seems to find the beauty in small things; a pair of red gloves, glitter on a birthday card, looking through purple goggle lenses, dead leaves swishing about from the steps.

In autumn dead leaves swirled in every time a door was opened, and in spring live birds fell down the chimneys.

Praised for its immersive narrative and gut - wrenching decisions, The Walking Dead left countless players looking for more.

The most atmospheric is Autumn Leaves (1856; City of Manchester Art Gallery), in which the budding youth of a group of girls is set against the seasonal decay of natural things: dead leaves burning at dusk.

Slugs: Many slug species play an important ecosystem role by eating dead leaves, fungus, and decaying vegetable material.

The burning hot sun, with «official» warnings of high UV on the darkest and gloomiest of day; last year's dead leaves still hanging on the dying branches, while new leaves trying to open are curled, burned, and blistered; wildlifes» eyes look matted and sick; where prarie grass once grew is slowly turning into sand; few insects; birds are crashing... How much longer will the masses turn a blind eye?

DIYer and Technology Editor at Instructables Randy Sarafan (who also created the Simple Bots we loved at Maker Faire) has devised a way you can leave home without worrying about the carnage you'll return to — dead leaves strewn all over the living room floor, stems withered to bending in unnatural directions, oh the horrors!

For example, visitors to the park at the Square Auguste - Renoir were at first unhappy about the idea of putting dead leaves back under live plants, seeing it as a messy solution; in the past the leaves were carted away.

Light from the lancewood seedling foliage differed from that of the Chatham trees but matched the light from dead leaves on the forest floor, the researchers report online this month in New Phytologist.

At the end of September, these slugs turn red and yellow and look like dead leaves.

Your protection plan: «Let the soil dry out between waterings,» Cobb advises, «remove dead leaves, and dust healthy ones monthly.»

As he pushes away pine straw and dead leaves from their plots, he recalls how they were the glue that held their large family of seven sons and three daughters together.

Killing Floor 2 has become the latest «Left 4 Dead» game to completely take off, filling the void that the absence of Left 4 Dead left after dying out completely.

She piled up dead leaves in the stroller's undercarriage.

Not far up the mountain we saw the bloodroot, a lacy white patch littered with dead leaves.

I dreamt last night that I was in a small, bare room in which the floor was covered with brown, dead leaves.

But we're all about to be in the same camp of sheer terror now, because a species of spider has been discovered that builds giant decoys of itself out of dead leaves and twigs.

«One girl was suicidal; compared herself to a dead leaf: fallen, hopeless.

If you don't get a killing frost, leave them in the ground and prune back any dead leaves and stems.

Even with all the pests that plagued the garden this year, I still loved walking around among the beds, pulling out weeds and tearing off dead leaves.