Few people would quarrel with that, particularly the millions of foreign visitors who are drawn to this gray land by its colorful pageantry.
Dead ahead, out of the murky dawn, smudges of gray land began to appear, gradually sharpening until it became clear that the bay was narrowing and two forested shorelines were slanting in closer to us, one on each side.
Route 66 was "the mother road," Steinbeck wrote, "the main migrant road... waving gently up and down on the map... over the red lands and the gray lands, twisting up into the mountains".
In fact, he noted, "dirty" grays took land away from reds at roughly 20 times the rate healthy grays did.
SAN FRANCISCO — Behind the wheel of a gray-green Land Rover here last week Rob Lowe was getting into the skin of his latest movie character, a political campaign consultant named Paul Turner.
Flowers pollinated by bees open during the day and tend to have similar characteristics: agreeable odours, bright colours (except red, which bees see as black or gray), a landing platform, nectar guides in the form of coloured lines running into the depths of the flower, and concealed nectaries.
In Gray's Landing, a streetcar-accessible building in downtown Portland, 20percentt of the units are set aside for formerly homeless Veterans referred by VA.
(B ) The rising contribution of rays to the taxonomically-differentiated global reported landed catch: shark landings (light gray), ray landings (black), log ratio [rays/sharks], (red).
But when it gets you photos that look this good... Three, Two, One...X!: I keep going back and forth between which phone has the best camera: the iPhone 4S or the HTC One X. Colors really burst on the One X in a way they do not on the iPhone; next to each other, it's like the One X camera is living in a Gushers commercial and the iPhone camera is living in gray-cloud-land.
Dark gray areas in land indicate the Shimosueyoshi surface formed during the last interglacial period (125 kyr BP) (Koike and Machida 2001).
On Friday evening, it's the semi-finals of the competition, and I'm on a gray peninsula of land that couldn't feel lonelier.
