They had expected a gentle peaking of interest in the site that would crest during the summer months when a lavish outdoor garden and pond will be completed; when tourism is at its peak numbers here; and when four-foot snowbanks are barely a memory.The butterfly has always had a powerful appeal in art.
Areas in which the snow cover has been blown away are the first to initiate plant growth in summer, whereas those in which snowbanks are slow to melt support only those plants adapted to the shorter snow-free season.
I rode the funicular up to Schatzalp, then enjoyed dinner, drinks and an alarmingly speedy descent punctuated by more than one fight with snowbanks that didn't get out of my way in time.
It will roost in trees but also dens in hollow trees, logs, or stumps, in addition to caves, rock crevices, burrows, or snowbanks.
Curlicues of mud-brown ice coated the soiled snowbanks along the street.
They were put outside, where the snowbanks were high enough so that the back-yard fence could be readily jumped.
The most dominant image in S.U.V. commercials and ads is still the S.U.V. mastering some off-road obstacle: fording streams, cutting through snowbanks, racing across virgin wilderness.
He had come to the Swiss Alps to attend the World Economic Forum, in Davos, and we met in a hotel suite that was bathed in sunlight reflecting off the snowbanks outside.
Blizzards had deposited huge snowbanks around the federal courthouse in downtown Manhattan, and every morning Mathew and Rosemary Martoma arrived in a chauffeured car and clambered, with their lawyers, over cordons of dirty snow.
I saw the church, heard the bells tolling, saw the doors opening and the congregation stepping outside, climbing onto the snowbanks.
There was no service on dozens of city bus routes, and 250 buses were still stranded in snowbanks and on unplowed streets by midafternoon.
