Sarah's grave is just a dirt plot, because with Ms. Eugene's limited resources, a headstone was out of reach.
Atop the soft dirt plot of the Occupy New Haven encampment, where sporting goods like bats, a helmet and three-quarters of a golf club have been repurposed as security equipment, protesters said the camp's seven-inch television was rarely tuned to sports.
A place called New Xade is the biggest of the resettlement areas, with many of its dirt streets plotted on a grid and an occasional stop sign for the occasional car.
In the production at the Gramercy, you can actually see death hanging in the air: several rows of gravestones and their dirt-covered plots, with roots and climbers dangling off them, are suspended upside down above the stage and the audience.
In a quiet neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, over 21,000 tons of toxic waste were buried in the 1940s, covered with dirt and a plot of grass.
Within the Howell Family Garden are ponds and meadows, themed fantasy gardens and a drop-in general gardening area, open every afternoon except Mondays, with a "Dig in the Dirt" program providing plots of earth where children can get their hands dirty (pants, shirts and socks, too, no doubt) by helping prepare the gardens for composting and planting seeds.
Nearby was a plot of dirt with rubble from another demolished home.
While the set and lighting are crude and occasionally pretentious (an empty picture frame?), Mr. Tucker also makes the most of a tiny plot of dirt.
About that plot of dirt: I had to learn that if I cared about it, or about something else in this world, then I had to join with others to show that caring.
It means we are getting a break from being "on" all the time, that we're making real contact by sharing real things – a common neighbourhood, a plot of dirt.
They've tried all the usual tricks to bring good-paying jobs back to the 77-acre plot of dirt where once stood a factory that made moon rockets and, later, space shuttles.
