She stood in a patch of sunlight, the red blood under her shoes, the vivid carcasses tacked round her, a bullock bleeding its life away not six feet away from her, and the death factory roaring all round her".
CORQUÍN, Honduras — The farmer stood in his patch of forlorn coffee plants, their leaves sick and wilted, the next harvest in doubt.
More activity occurred in the bottomland stand in which patches had been harvested and around Carolina bays than in unharvested stands of bottomland hardwoods and upland hardwoods and pines.
A single reddish pixel in the JPEG, for instance, could stand in for a patch of pixels that in fact depict a subtle texture of red and purple bands.
A late spring frost decreased abundance and species richness of caterpillars, while a severe drought impacted adult lepidopterans, depressing species richness in patch cut stands to a greater degree than in control or shelterwood cut stands.
"The only thing that we have to protect the lives of Americans and Virginians is our vote," Andy Parker told me, searching for a sunny patch to stand in within the drafty parking lot.
We negotiated bumps on one side of the run, made our way across a ridge and through a stand of aspen, silenced our skis in patches of untouched powder.
I envisioned my cows standing in a pumpkin patch.
Crowding is so bad that on the 4, 5, 6 and L lines, trains during the morning rush exceed the transit agency's loading guidelines, which posit that every rider should have at least a three-square-foot space to stand in (that translates to a square patch of car floor 20 inches on each side).
I went back to Shea the day after the eleven-inning loss to the Expos, but this time sat jam-packed in the stands in short left, where patches of pale sunshine and mild booing (while Mets starter Steve Trachsel gave back an early 3-1 leand and the shrilling of kiddie fans kept us cheerful.
Mr Patch, in his sodden khaki, stood in a foot of water in the trench.
