Nantucket houses seem to know weather: they've been intimate with rain squalls gusting off the Atlantic and the fog that periodically enshrouds the island, with winter's northeasters and, of course, resplendent sunny summer days.
I kept meaning to hike one of the ancient green roads that lace the Burren; they're noted for the wildflowers but I was smitten with rock, with the way a saucer-sized depression on a boulder could hold an array of small flowers brilliant as jewels, the way the wind gusting off Galway Bay tossed the tousled pink flowers of hemp agrimony, a species that grew en masse in the limestone fissures.
Glover was about to putt again when a gust of wind threw off his concentration.
Catwalk up-dos and ponytails are usually of the sort that require a blow-dry and hot-rollers, but at Prada and Sportmax the hair was flat, ponytailed, and with the kind of wispy tendrils coming out at the front that you get after wearing a hat, or being caught in a gust of wind getting off the bus.
Walking the plank before I reached the hotel door, a fierce gust of wind blew off my hat and turned my umbrella into a bowl-shaped, useless thing.
Somewhere along the line, a gust of wind took off with my last name and I became a one-named person, like Cher.
I am not clear whether said balloon was filled with hot air and carried a basket slung beneath it, or whether this date immortalizes the first time a wee Danny Boy let go of the string and a gust of wind made off with his little zeppelin.
GALWAY, Ireland — On an autumn evening beside the storied beauty of Galway Bay, with a chilly gust blowing off the Atlantic, Martin McGuinness breezed into a popular tourist hotel that looks out across the bay with the air of a man who has found a measure of peace after a lifetime gripped by Ireland's troubled past.
It's the tradition owners Laurent and Mimi founded 15 years ago, that everyone who comes through the door of the Minck – accompanied by a great gust of wind off the sea – has to make the rounds of bar and tables, shaking hands with every single customer present, stranger or no, before ordering.
