Their apartment looks down, way down, onto Central Park, where "moving umbrella specks" trail "minuscule Akitas along miniature bridle paths".
The runners and Nordic skiers set off on the groomed track across an ice slab the size of Spain, soon becoming a trail of faint dark specks against a backdrop of white mountains.
Had I arrived earlier, I hear, I could have watched him soar, his 7ft wingspan reduced to a vanishingly tiny speck amongst the lofty wisps of trailing cirrus clouds.
Asghar Farhadi, a deserving winner for "A Separation," took a moment to reassure us that his fellow Iranians "despise hostility and resentment," the implication being that they do not, contrary to certain claims made on the U.S. campaign trail, spend their weekends cooking up helpful specks of uranium-235.
Puente del Inca is a speck of a place on a high desert valley from where a trail winds some 13 miles across and 8,000 feet up to Plaza de Mulas.
Back in April 2008 while still on the campaign trail, Barack Obama famously dismissed criticism from Hillary Clinton by brushing specks of imaginary dirt off each shoulder.
O.K., these questions -- all of them -- may have come to mind a little later along my journey, while I snacked on slices of speck on one of the benches that materialize on Austrian hiking trails exactly when you need a rest.
O.K., these questions — all of them — may have come to mind a little later along my journey, while I snacked on slices of speck on one of the benches that materialize on Austrian hiking trails exactly when you need a rest.
The aim was to ski around 100km of the King's Trail, a long-distance footpath that snakes through these mountains, starting in Abisko, a speck of a hamlet 150km inside the Arctic Circle.
This part of the Appalachian Trail, known as the Old Speck Trail, stretches for three and a half miles until it intersects with the Mahoosuc Trail.
