He had seen the man around the house, trimming the bushes, walking with the children and holding hands with the woman on different occasions.
A Sea of Green Overlooking Paradise Pond, the Victorian Gothic greenhouses, incorporating a balloon-shaped palm house trimmed in fleur-de-lis metalwork, offer immediate refuge from the cold amid the moist scent of tropical and subtropical blooms.
His father, Dwight Smith Sr., who lives in a tidy two-story brick house trimmed with an American flag in a middle-class neighborhood of Wilmington, said in television interviews this week that his son had been wounded in an attack in Afghanistan, and twice nearly died.
When they were finished, late on Wednesday evening, the diorama they had made displayed an arch vision of Americana: a 1960s suburban clapboard ranch house trimmed in colored lights sitting on top of a warren of tunnels and holes, a kind of giant ant farm, except that there were treasures tucked inside.
Of course, there were also the run-of-the-mill moments, the days when Mr. DiFranco would return from his job as an accountant with Marsh & McLennan, and go to work all over again, helping his mother around the house, trimming bushes, refinishing floors or moving furniture.
Gardeners were at work around the house trimming the large cactus plants that proliferate in the garden and that line the curving road down to the imposing offices of Vatican City's administrators, which once accommodated visiting royalty.
Cars and trucks were numerous and of recent vintage, houses trim, freshly painted, surrounded by blooming poinciana, hibiscus and bougainvillea.
[C4.] Auction Houses Trim Work Forces Sotheby's and Christie's, the auction houses, are cutting their worldwide work forces to maintain their profitability.
AZEK Trimboards, Moosic, Pa., a maker of housing trim, to Allen & Gerritsen, Watertown, Mass., as the first agency of record on its account.
Romania THE ROUTE Maramures, the rugged northwestern region that borders Ukraine, has dense woodlands, rustic farms and traditional villages with wooden churches and houses trimmed in elaborate wood carvings.
