Before riding back, we stopped in a nearby festival called Dally in the Alley, featuring music and various stands lined up between Forest and Hancock streets.
Nicodemus, a national historic site, is an all-black town west of the Mississippi River started by ex-slaves; each of the town's four historic structures stands in various states of disrepair.
This is a delicious scenario, then: Murray and Djokovic duking it out on the final Sunday of the championship again, with their coaches and former rivals looking down from the stands in various stages of agitation – or, in Lendl's case, appearing as if he'd just been taken out of a cryogenic ice box.
Wolves (Canis lupus) in Southeast Alaska inhabit temperate rainforests characterized by patchworks of old-growth and harvested forest stands in various stages of regeneration.
Other works, in various states of incompletion, stand about, including one by Marc Quinn, whose sculpture of Alison Lapper Pregnant occupied Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth from 2005 to 2007.
On the city's east side buildings stand in various stages of decay, some boarded up, some burned, some with rotting walls that seem to melt slowly in the sun.Momentum for action, however, is building up.
An observant visitor with a fertile imagination can still catch glimpses of this bygone era, whether by examining the detritus, much of which still sits on the forest floor, or by visiting the buildings and ruins that yet stand, in various stages of preservation or decay.
Surveying his studio, where more of his disembodied yet personality-laden sculptures stand in various stages of completion, Wurm notes, "What I use and what I like to use is cynicism -- I call it critical cynicism -- to speak about certain truths in our world and our reality from a certain aspect, a cynical aspect".
In this study, data from a contingent valuation survey was used to estimate the recreation value, in economic terms, of various stand types within boreal forest landscapes, given by four different silvicultural systems.
Later, I see homes and businesses in various stages of construction, taco stands, and a couple on the side of the road assessing a fender bender they just got into.
