I was sitting there one day, as usual, my clipboard waiting in my lap, stocked with paper as blank as my mind at that moment, when I saw a stretch limo drive by.
This time, Thompson led him to a grassy dune at the western end of the seventh hole, and when Irvine climbed to the top and looked toward the Atlantic he saw a stretch of undulating linksland running along the ocean, between the beach and the existing holes.
Excited for natural scenery, you instead see a stretch of wastewater lagoons.
"I don't think I've ever really seen a stretch like these past nine games that we've been playing as far as scoring runs and the way our pitchers have been throwing the ball," said Lester (9-2).
The windows are open and I see a stretch of lawn, a vegetable garden, edible things growing in rows, spiky yellow dahlias, a crow with something in his beak which he slowly breaks in two and eats.
But if you allow yourself to gaze, you will see a stretch of unadulterated nature: reeds blowing in the wind, birds flying across the water and tall plumes sparkling in the sunset.
In all her 101 N.C.A.A. tournament games, Pat Summitt, the Tennessee women's basketball coach, said she had never seen a stretch like this, three straight games in which her team took its fate down to the wire.
If the region sees a stretch of unusually hot and humid weather combined with loss of more power stations or transmission lines than usual, Boston and southwestern Connecticut would be the first to face shortages, according to the organization, the Northeast Power Coordinating Council.
In the East, Montreal raced out into an early lead with eye-catching road wins in Cascadia (including what would turn out to be a very rare win in Portland), before seeing a stretched squad stumble on the run-in.
At Fort Campbell, crisis counseling and "battle buddy" programs designed to identify severe depression saw a positive stretch of six weeks dashed by three suicides at the end of May.
Almost back, I saw a long field stretching down almost to the sea, and at the far end, a group of children playing a boys versus girls game that looked suspiciously like baseball.
