A. Well, you can't not live here and feel its pride and "can-do" attitude, its spirit of individuality and self-reliance, the endless construction that's turned its dusty roads into six lane highways and clover leaf masterpieces of concrete architecture, the constant reshaping that is turning this state into a Mecca for cutting edge innovation in science, business, technology and medicine.
They checked out the sunken Japanese-style dining room and the heated concrete floors with leaf inlays.
Wide, well-engineered roads criss-cross the country, with clover-leaf accesses everywhere, and modern concrete bridges spanning ravines and gullies.
Local housing in both refugee and migrant communities is limited to bamboo or concrete walls and flooring with leaf or metal roofing and pit toilets.
Still, Rudolph's trademarks are there: the concrete columns, shaped like four-leaf clovers, are like no others in the world, and the indoor sculpture court is a complex, multilevel space.
Mr. Fredette said that his son, whom he described as an experienced and careful rider, was thrown over the handlebars when he drove at low speed through the leaf pile and his front wheel struck one of the concrete chunks.
Pandan, the color of concrete, has a hint of vanilla from Thai pandan leaf.
On the concrete floor of the pool, the years' collection of leaf rot, dust, rainfall and frost, the crickets and toads that fell into and then could not escape it - have recomposed to form the barest layer of soil.
The Bar, a small dark room with an unpainted, concrete ceiling, walls that are askew, and a gold-leaf bar that comes out of a 15-foot-long hole in the floor and slants, sometimes makes people dizzy.
The works, made of concrete or fiberglass and largely created by Mr. Cassilly, capture energetic poses: a giraffe reaching for a high leaf, a turtle stretching its mouth wide.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
