Thinking the Buddha must be mad, the monks reluctantly went back to the glade, sat down and began practicing the Loving Kindness meditation.
Other descents took us through open glades, or down meadows scattered with shrubs, or, thrillingly, into steep-sided gullies, and everywhere we went the powder had a different feel.
Last night when the waters rose again I rowed out to the beeless glade and lay down on the grass.
And on finding a lush glade, "I lay down in the sun enjoying myself most entirely," Byron wrote to his half-sister, "and dared to write down in my pocket-book that I was happy".
On the final morning, we do yoga in the garden, in a glade reached down a path through fig and olive trees, jasmine and honeysuckle.
And this is the place to squint and imagine watching canal boats glide up and down a glade of spruce and oak, miles from the nearest water.
They skied down through open glades of whitebark pine and lodgepole, dropping more than 2,000 vertical feet — all the way back to the property.
We wander back down to the glade past Régent's house, which is guarded by a pack of huskies.
A long sweep through the sylvan glades of Mount Prospect Park brought us eventually down to Brooklyn's trendiest avenue: Fifth.
Trees were her passion, and down in the damp glades alongside the River Slaney, she established groves of dogwoods and acers, as well as a big collection of oak trees.
