Viewed through the glasses, a distant wooded hilltop becomes a treeless "grass field", in which stands a gibbet, from which hangs a body.
The first third of the walk involves a gentle climb through sheep fields of billiard-baize grass to a hilltop moorland called the Begwyns.
She showed me the place: a rough field of ankle-high grass on a hilltop opposite a cemetery.
Today, Banmaqan's hilltop is a picnic spot, overgrown with grass and weeds.
Abandoned homesteads are hollow shells on distant hilltops, the only landmarks among endless brown grass.
The "estate" is actually 40 acres of dry grass, oak and manzanita on a hilltop, where mountain lions, deer, wild boar, bears and the occasional stray dog roam.
They declared it a new neighborhood of the village of Bab al-Shams, or Gate of the Sun, a reference to the first wildcat encampment that was set up by grass-roots activists on an opposite hilltop in January.
On Monday, large families with bags of food staked out patches of grass in the shade of scattered trees at a hilltop Cairo park named after the nearby Al-Azhar mosque and university, Egypt's historic seat of Muslim scholarship.
As your plane touches down, the shimmer of the raindrop covered grass may convince you that emeralds cover the hilltops.
