Sentences with phrase «white tree trunks»

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This was because the soot in the atmosphere from the burning of coal darkened the tree trunks where the moths would rest, rendering the white moths easy prey while the black moths remained well camouflaged.

Although blurry and pixelated, the video images reveal five diagnostic features of the ivory - billed woodpecker, including its size (as determined based on the known trunk diameter of the tree on which the bird was perched), the distinctive black - and - white markings on its wings and the white plumage on its back.

They took a black and white movie camera and visually documented a clutch of tree - trunks still standing and no crater... indicating a massive air - burst directly over that point.

High above, the boughs of the fir trees shifted in the wind, revealing white fragments of twilight sky, and the trunks made melancholy aisles into the gloom.

Drive 135 kilometres (84 miles) into the forest around Pemberton, a former logging town surrounded by soaring white - trunked karri trees.

The overlapping of realism and abstraction is nowhere as pungent as in the work of Galesburg, Illinois artist Lynette Lombard, whose oil «Ox - Bow Tree and Lagoon» (2010) poses a thick white gestural trunk against planes of blue and orange, and whose work «Waverock» (2009) takes the viewer from expressionist fervor towards the cogent essays as to how realism can effect abstract economy in such works as «Cliff and Sea, Spain» and «Chicago Railbridge» (both 2010).

The resulting sculptures, which she worked into by hand, sometimes adding a lick of white paint or a shade of coloured pencil, are of a human - scale and could equally be age - worn human figures or gnarled tree trunks — again, the human and the natural is a juxtaposition Carey enjoys exploiting.

One vertical column, the colour of sodden earth, could be the figure of a man, or the trunk of a tree; a dimly lit central section, tinged with green, could be a view to a landscape; the grey - white paint on the right - hand side seems to hang in the foreground like a fog.

Commonly called a ghost gum these trees do have a very white trunk, most of the year with peeling grey bark at other times.

We look into the darkened shack through a white - frame window to a second window in the shack's opposite wall and out that to a few crisply painted sunlit tree trunks — a painting within a painting.

It is not so spring - like around the corner at Marian Goodman Gallery, where the Arte Povera eminence grise Giuseppe Penone offers a wintry grove of white marble tree trunks and branches choreographed like figures in the urban plazas of Giacometti.

«Classic» strip bark bristlecones in the dry White Mountains end up with only a «strip» of surviving bark and are predominantly «scar», but some of the Almagre strip bark trees have what must be a similar appearance to this Engelman spruce — half or more of the trunk covered with bark and half scar.

Many of these ancient trees are now dead with ghostly white trunks.

String them along the fence or in shrubs, or wrap lengths of plain white or cream coloured ones around tree trunks, restaurant - style.

Near the «trunk» part of the tree skirt, I finished off with a sheer white double ruffle from my scrap supply.

Bedroom tree (lodge / hiking / nordic style) has white lights on trunk and amber lights on the branches... gives a very warm cozy look to the bedroom.

Trim Color — Simply White by Benjamin Moore in Semi-gloss Finish Door Color — Mopboard Black by Benjamin Moore in Semi-gloss Finish Beadboard Wallpaper — Allen and Roth from Lowe's Paint Color in Closet — Horizon by Benjamin Moore in Eggshell Bed — Overstock Black and White Dalmation Fabric — Premier Prints — Togo Lamps — HomeGoods Black and White Striped Throw — IKEA Coverlet — Have had for a long time not sure where it was originally purchased Bed Skirt and Shams — Country Curtains Nightstands — Pier 1 about 8 years ago, they still carry them but they are considerably more expensive than back when I purchased ours Basket under nightstand — Wayfair Lamps — Home Goods Roman Shades — Lowe's (they've since been discontinued) Drapery Panels — IKEA Drapery Rods — Lowe's Duvet Cover — Target about 7 years ago Rug — HomeGoods Black and White Square Pillows — Target several years ago Trunk at end of bed — an antique shop about 10 - 11 years ago Picture above bed — from a little shop in SC about 8 years ago Desk — IKEA Chair — Joss and Main Black and White Tree Image — Pottery Barn about 12 years ago Gold Scissors, Stapler and Dog Tape Dispenser — Nate Berkus at Target Notebooks — HomeGoods Miniature Scissors in wooden spool — Antique Farmhouse Vase with Hydrangeas — Target (was a candle now that's it's burned we use it as a vase) Hydrangeas — Picked from Yard Horse head — HomeGoods Little Women — From Barnes and Noble — Illustrated by Anna Bond

I placed the little tree in a bucket and added some white fabric around the trunk.

Natural latex is white liquid tapped from the trunks of rubber trees.

Twilight Trees (www.twilighttrees.com.au) sells 1.8 m ones for $ 1800, but they have white trunks.