Tomorrow the flowers will bud, and the yellow and gray grasses will show a fluorescent green sheen.
The subtle winter landscape -- expanses of woods, naked now of leaves, and fields of frost-gray grass and spent cornstalks, with an occasional low farmhouse or barn of weathered stone -- is familiar from the paintings of Andrew Wyeth, a local resident.
But, for all his talk of doubt and gray tones, Grass has developed a penchant for shrill political pronouncements.
Always near the roadside, on bent fenceposts or hopping in the gray flossy grass, they look like crows but with breasts a militant strain of orange.
It is dry savannah, mostly flat with dunes rising here and there, covered with dry gray-green grass and dotted with camelthorn trees.
With his fiery language, mop of gray curls, grass-roots campaigning and calls for a referendum on Italy's staying in the euro zone, Mr. Grillo, 64, has helped blunt the gains made by Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister.
It can be powerful, and spaciously beautiful, as in the start of a poem for a sick friend: The morning is so gray that the grass is gray and the side of the white horse grazing is as gray and hard as the harsh, insistent wind gnawing the iron surface of the river.
Brown grass, frowsty gray mold, fungal frills.
By early evening in Kyrgyzstan, local Web sites had posted photographs of wreckage, scorched grass and gray airplane parts that were scattered over a wide area.
According to his own account of his early teenage years, Tejada spent nearly all his free time across the street from his house on the patchy grass and gray infield dirt of that stadium.
The scene is a forlorn vastness of yellow-green grass, purplish-gray pavement, regimented saplings, and whitish sky.
