Perched on a steep hillside sprinkled with gnarled trees, Korangal Outpost is little more than a dozen structures made of stone and wood and is heavily sandbagged.
The stadium, with more than 40,000 seats, is surrounded by a vast new public park, its grounds sprinkled with palm trees and tropical plants.
On this campus sprinkled with redbud trees, the early days of spring are usually the most quiet and most beautiful, the time when Iowa State University releases its students into finals week and beyond.
McCain's ranch, in the vicinity of Page Springs and Cottonwood, off an unpaved road sprinkled with cactuses and scrubby trees, fits the bill as a hardy, homey place for a president (or, in this case, a candidate) to unwind.
Through her work, as well as her personal experience as a Cancer Mom, daughter of parents, both of whom had Alzheimer's disease and a family tree sprinkled with addicts.
It's a comfortable mix of Georgian rooms and modern décor, with a cliff-top lawn sprinkled with rattan chairs and cedar trees.
I climb aboard and we're off, thundering past the medieval alleys of the old town and out – to a seascape of rocky islets sprinkled with wooden cottages and pine trees.
Lying south of Corfu, and only two miles wide, the island consists of 200,000 olive trees and is sprinkled with crumbling old stone houses.
Sure, the trees were generously sprinkled with yellow and orange, but there hadn't been a frost, which suppresses the production of chlorophyll and allows the leaves' full colors to emerge.
Housing ranges from lofts to luxurious town houses, on tree-lined streets sprinkled with one-of-a-kind boutiques, restaurants and strong public and private schools.
In 2011, Waitrose launched his new range of pine sugar-flavoured mince pies, which the chef declared were "delicious eaten warm from the oven and then sprinkled with pine sugar for a Christmas tree aroma".
