We watch as she and her 4-year-old brother go off to play by the river and glimpse a silver plane cross the sky, trailing a white plume of smoke.
Very tall and tapered, with a plume of silver hair, he even looks like an exclamation point.
The cloud-seeding method generally used in the winter and the one used in Denver involves ground-based generators set at high elevations that are literally fired up to release plumes containing silver iodide crystals into storm clouds with temperatures roughly between 7 and 25 degrees Fahrenheit.
At the Yonkers show Mr. Karraker's loans of Baekeland's diary, written in minute handwriting, and an old-fashioned silver pen shaped like a plume contrast with Mr. Groot's glossy thermoses, inkwells and adding machines.
A Sovereign's Escort was provided for the procession by the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, who wore silver and gold breastplates and plumed helmets.
Though he hesitates to call it a silver lining in the murky underwater plume, Moore believes this oil spill may finally be the "apocalyptic" disaster that rallies Christians behind the environmental movement, just as Roe v. Wade brought together people of faith opposed to abortion rights.
I loved Takashi Murakami's three-part sculptural installation "Second Mission Project ko2," where, in three stages, an adolescent girl turns into a space age Valkyrie and then an airplane: silver walls with coral spikes and plumes; beaks, breasts, green ponytails, limbs covered in a black-and-white pattern that is like the hair of an animal and/or the skin of an extraterrestrial.
He led the way through a wondrous sea of grasses, from tall, 10-foot plumed cortaderias like Andes Silver and Patagonia -- started from seeds he collected in the Andes in 1991 -- to the filmy miscanthus Morning Light, which he found 15 years ago collecting dust at the National Arboretum.
Instruments aboard LCROSS spotted a range of chemicals in the debris plume, including alcohol, methane, ammonia and silver.
The extravagant costumes were designed by Adrian, taking some 250 tailors and seamstresses six months to prepare them using 50 pound of silver sequins and 12 yards of white ostrich plumes.
