Nikita drowses and they become lost, riding across bleak fields "with clumps of wormwood and straw sticking up from under the snow".
I last met him during the election campaign at a small rally on a bleak windy field in a coloured township near Cape Town.
Vaclav Smil has built a road between the bleak, windswept fields of the catastrohists on one side and the sunny, bountiful fields of the cornucopians on the other.
Almost bisected by a gully and busily dotted with trees, a neat dark row of them on the horizon, the rectangle is surrounded on three sides by blandly bleak open fields.
The 400-square-mile glacier is a hulking blue-ice wall (more than a half-mile thick in some places) that you'll see looming on the horizon as you approach it over the bleak lava fields from the south.
Then, her campaign managers seized upon an opportunity when they saw an open spot for her in a bleak Best Actress field.
Drive north to Havana, however, and the landscape tells of a bleak sequel: idle fields abandoned to weeds and derelict tractors.
Shot at random on long rides through southern and western parts of the United States, they encompass ribbons of road, bleak or plowed fields, bare trees, rutted snow, telephone poles, a bridge understructure, a distant railroad crossing sign.
It wasn't that we weren't having a fantastic time or had failed to be captivated by Iceland's tortured beauty: its bleak, brutalised lava fields, its looming volcanoes, and its waterfalls thundering over vertiginous basalt cliffs into the black sea.
