To me, sailing on Penobscot River on a pleasant August day is the complete opposite of war.
ONE pleasant April afternoon, I found myself, along with my wife and our two children, in the middle of a quintessential American scene.
Pevsner's circumnavigation of the county during an exceptionally pleasant August, with his long-suffering wife, Lola, at the wheel, proved a happier experience.
The president meanwhile must have enjoyed the outing, and the uncommonly pleasant August weather, as he went out again the next day with his "Spencer" for another hour's shooting with Hay.
The explosion, at 10 West 119th Street, shattered the calm of a pleasant October afternoon, and numerous neighbors and workers dropped what they were doing to help residents out of the building before firefighters arrived.
When Jones was driving to work on the M57 on a pleasant August evening last year, the supermarket manager received a phone call from his wife which he described as "his worst nightmare".
That happened one pleasant September afternoon in 1972, in the apartment of my classmate Vitya, who that summer became the world student table tennis champion and brought back from unattainable Stockholm three records: Led Zeppelin ("II"), Deep Purple ("Machine Head") and Uriah Heep ("Look at Yourself").
When you wake up in the morning, you will be glad that bird flu, swine flu, anthrax, climate change and the dead of winter remain, on this pleasant June day, only threats, and you will be especially glad that you are not spending your summer on the west coast of Greenland, even though the west coast of Greenland is one of the most interesting places in the world.
This was maybe Obama's only truly pleasant August.
Meanwhile, Giannoulias may not have a pleasant April ahead of him.
Flowers by MarIta Competello.
