Six hundred square yards (one-eighth acre, or 0.05 hectare) of silver birch forest were cleared by three men in four hours.
The home she shares with her second husband Bob Nichols, a writer and former landscape architect, is a wooden house on a hill surrounded by silver birch forest.
One-eighth acre (600 square yards, or 0.05 hectare) of silver birch forest were cleared by three men in four hours.
Hou has spoken of scouting locations in Inner Mongolia and Hubei province, and finding "silver birch forests and lakes" which were like stepping into "a Chinese classical painting", with "water and mountains evoked in a single brush stroke".
There's his catalogue of images: moving water reflecting the sky, silver birch forests, cast-iron bells, religious icons, horses, apples, mud, war; the fluid, serpentine camera movements of impressive duration and sensuality; and the prodigally poetic method of storytelling, with unsignposted dream sequences and flashbacks.
But between June and August, the lakes transform into a glistening patchwork of waterways, studded with islands and bordered by emerald pine, spruce and silver birch forests.
We packed the Land Rover without a care in the world, and as soon as we hit the road found a majestic avenue of silver birch in the forest.
These eternal Russian truths coexist in equally diverse landscapes of icy tundra and sun-kissed beaches, dense silver birch and fir forests and deep and mysterious lakes, snow-capped mountains and swaying grasslands – those famous steppes.
Pocked with lochs, tumbling rivers and misty glens, its moors, ancient Caledonian pine forest and silver birch are threaded with hiking and mountain-biking trails.
A winter sun hangs low in the distance, giving only the illusion of warmth in the dense, snow-covered forest of silver birch, spruce and sugar maples, the source of Quebec's most famous export.
Fig. 2 Regional ranges of Norway spruce, Scots pine and silver birch in the Norwegian National Forest Inventory.
