Word: firs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They begin to arrive a few at a time, bright, familiar butterflies alighting in the upper branches of the gray-green fir trees. But as the month of November wears on, the sky becomes filled with tiny, floating flecks of color. Tens of millions of butterflies descend from the skies, draping entire trees in an astonishing tapestry of black, white and orange...
...College in Indiana in 1926, and after a period of piano study in Dayton, she yielded to a love of all things western and moved to Choteau, becoming the high school music teacher in 1928. It is a ranching community -- wheat mostly -- set on rolling land studded with spruce, fir and aspen, by the eastern face of the Rockies. Its winters can get quite brutal, and now and again an old hand decides to break the monotony by taking a lesson from Marge. Even if you have no ear at all, Marge can get you over the hump with...
Yellow Submarine Fir. at noon...
...strategic places to shelter trout. It often requires rechanneling a creek to increase its flow so that water will once again ripple over rocks to provide enough oxygen. At Boise's River Run development, McIntyre dug pools and meandering bends into an existing brook and added rocks and Douglas fir logs to the riverbank. Now trout spawn in streams that flow between condominium town houses and $100,000 homesites...
...wide open spaces of the train shed were deemed essential. Out there, things do get interesting. The vast, gently arched roof is a 110-ft.-high web of steel trusses fitted with alternating wall-to-wall strips of clear glass and unpainted wood planks. The glass and fir are all new, but almost every bit of steel, 2,700 tons, is original. The space is gloriously scaled, and the strips of roof make for neat plays of sun and shadow on the eleven acres beneath. One simultaneously feels inside and outdoors, comforted and invigorated; the ambiguity, akin to that...