Under icy skies, our picket line – uncharted, unnerving territory for junior doctors – generated much warmth.
Then on gorgeous icy opener, Sky, they go mute, leaving it to flutter on stark synths and Mitchell's brute self-talk; piano ballad Lucky Stars is just her resolve to be unconcerned in love with "lack".
"Is this the spot?" I wonder as the road slips by, the weight of history offset both by the unexpected beauty of its smooth silvery skin beneath an icy December sky, and my father's persistent offer of Fruitella (or "Opal Fruits" as he, a Mancunian-Italian, insists on calling them).
In the cold lab, however, where the temperature is 8 degrees below zero, the focus is on a one-square-meter panel, brilliantly lighted by an artificial sun and watched over by an icy artificial sky that can be widely varied to replicate different winter conditions.
At Moscar Flats, I faced a dichotomy: to the north, icy blue skies; to the south, roiling black clouds.
At 35,000 feet, the state's rugged beauty unfolds, a succession of white mountain peaks against steel-blue skies, icy lakes and frozen rivers that snake as far as the eye can see.
When Congress moved toward year-round daylight time, millions of western-edge parents were forced to send young children off to school under icy, star-filled skies.
Black the taper, sharp their mouths in starlight, The sky with icy rootless flowers gauntly glows.
