Sipping tea in the sun and looking down from their clay bunker at a placid field full of wildflowers, Irfan Ozay and his cousin Remzi should be happy.
Megan Yates, a hiking guide at the Lake Placid Lodge, field-tested five women's jackets while hiking in the Adirondacks with Buddy, a golden retriever.
We pass low forests, rushing rivers, huge placid lakes, empty fields where timber has been harvested.
On the 25th anniversary, he recalled, the Americans and the British had sent young soldiers from their contingents in Germany who looked unbelievingly at the placid beaches and rich green fields.
The ripening, sun-browned corn, the sweet-smelling stacked hay, the placid cattle grazing in the fields, the beauty of the fertile summer land, suggest a calm wholly at variance with the disturbed spirit of the day.
We ride the velibs out to the Bois de Vincennes and go for a run on the paths, through shaded alleys of trees, across big open fields, around small placid lakes.
In the past, Redford, directing such movies as "A River Runs Through It," "The Legend of Bagger Vance," and "The Horse Whisperer," indulged a placid pictorialism of sparkling streams and verdant fields; the movies became slow and soggy.
The stage began in Bagneres de Bigorre in the foothills of the Pyrenees and wended east through placid countryside, with long vistas of sunflower fields and pastures spotted with horses and cattle.
Trucks carrying silvery blades nearly half a football field long have been lumbering through this placid coastal town all summer, backing up traffic as they slowly exit the roadway.
During minima, the sun is relatively placid, with no sunspots, a steady and strong magnetic field, and a more-or-less constant solar wind.
