The pitch at the Parc des Princes was full of holes and ridges, the grass long and dry, the passing almost embarrassingly bad.
The peat beds that support sawgrass are slightly elevated and may begin abruptly creating ridges of grass.
And there I was among the sculptured snow ridges and frozen grass on the banks of the Twenty Mile, attached to a giant kite, wearing a pair of skis.
First, starting 50 years ago, excavations at Saltville, Virginia, in an area of ancient stream deposits dated between 14000 and 15000 C y BP and in the vicinity of the mountain ridges supporting these grass balds, unearthed about half of the megaherbivores mentioned above (McDonald & Bartlett, 1983; McDonald, 1990; Schubert & Wallace, 2009).
Emerging from the forest, we followed a ridge of close-cropped grass, disturbing the never-ending lunch of sheep and goats.
On Friday bulldozers were busy carving out a pair of access roads behind the house, both rising up to a ridge of pale yellow grass overlooking the village, converging on a rocky shoulder dotted with brilliant orange flowers.
It has driven the dry snow into scalloped drifts, scraping bare the lawn but caching the snow in low hummocks in the pasture and in ridge lines where last year's grass grew over the lowest fence-wire.
The molars possess cross-cutting ridges, so that tough grass is sheared between opposing teeth.
Stained Glass In an Instant: Plastic Panel Mimics Look Of Bygone Era The Pella Corporation (pella.com) introduced interchangeable decorative window panels in 10 patterns, including leaves, sculptured ridges and blades of grass.
So we set out a groundsheet and our sleeping bags on the soft grass of a ridge, so that the winds would blow the mosquitoes away.
Vast areas of Waimea Valley are still wild and mostly untrodden; as we rappelled down a steep trail from the ridge, bushwhacking through scratchy guinea grass and tripping over climbing vines, it became clear why the television show "Lost" and films like "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and the sequel to "Journey to the Center of the Earth" were shot here.
