The main characteristic of landscape evolution in the Pyrenees during the 20th century is the increased presence of shrubs in old fields.
Posters and banners beside the road show images of verdant fields, flowering shrubs, trees, superhighways, high-speed trains, gleaming office blocks, elegant executives — an almost comical imagined paradise of affluent 21st-century development in the midst of construction mayhem.
Mainly they were about the natural world, which I was just discovering, because we'd moved to the outskirts of the city, and with the war going on there was no building taking place, so there were great fields of trees and bushes and shrubs and birds.
Panels up to 32 feet long (with five- and six-figure prices, and on view from Wednesday until Nov. 19) are streaked with Impressionist vines and vegetables or are spare in the Modernist manner, dotted with peacocks and shrubs in fields of gold.
In the second inning of Game 5 of the American League Championship Series, Napoli, the Boston Red Sox' first baseman, cleared two walls and two rows of shrubs high above center field.
We scored the habitats in which all C. nemoralis populations were sampled in the four categories: woodland, hedgerow (lines of shrubs & trees at field & other boundaries), grassland or sand dune.
Our path looped back to connect with the creek downstream, where the banks were thinner and fields of marsh grasses were perceptible just beyond the scrim of shrubs.
Four hundred meters away, across a heavily mined field of rough grass, shrubs and tall trees sit the Russian-backed separatists.
There are beds of flowers, ground covering, shrubs and expansive fields of grass--all requiring heavy irrigation.
