Bill Walton, his family and friends are sitting beneath a flapping Grateful Dead banner in the tropical-forest backyard of his San Diego home discussing the day's news.
Our last morning, we finally got some real exercise, on a hike with Joe Saenz, a local Chiricahua Apache guide who led us into the juniper-dotted hills of the national forest, his backyard and ancestral home.
And by leaving an area of brush or scrub between the forest and the backyard lawn, what they're doing is providing optimum tick environment".
The juxtaposition inverts: a pair of blond twin girls, new arrivals to Streamside, stand in awe before an immense wall of forest primeval (their backyard, perhaps?).
A new, inexpensive robotic device from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University attaches snugly to almost any standard digital camera, tilting and panning it to fashion highly detailed panoramic vistas — whether of the Grand Canyon, a rain forest or a backyard Easter egg hunt.
As a tick specialist, he has been trawling fields, forest floors and backyards for infected black-legged ticks since 1987, when Lyme became a reportable disease.
And Sarah Nicole Prickett, in her first piece for T, writes about the Rodarte girls Laura and Kate Mulleavy's endless delight in the romantic weirdness of their childhood home Santa Cruz — the ticky-tacky boardwalk, suburban split-levels and backyard forests — the influence of which can be felt emotionally in the clothes they design.
For five days I joined riders from the New England Mountain Bike Association, traveling through the thick forest of their mountainous backyard.
Find a wide open field, a forest, or just your backyard.
Hundreds of thousands of golf balls are lost or abandoned every day in lakes, ponds, forests, wetlands, deserts, backyards, gardens, parking lots, cemeteries, on rooftops and at the bottom of woodchuck holes.
In Australia, where four people and dozens of horses have died of Hendra, the scenario was different: suburbanization lured infected bats that were once forest-dwellers into backyards and pastures.
