Tiny sprouts of daikon radish add an extra note of freshness.
Home Depot's results showed that the housing market had sprouts of good news.
But a lizard also slid past him and green sprouts of grass could be seen in areas that had been on fire only a few days ago.
In the corner, Shorrock, who is lanky and handsome at fifty-one, with light-blue eyes and sprouts of silver hair, was preparing two large overnight backpacks.
They ate the sprouts of new flowers and the buds of apples and the tough leaves of oak trees and even last year's chaff.
But he said 18 sprout mixtures were under suspicion, including sprouts of beans, broccoli, peas, chickpeas, garlic, lentils, mung beans and radishes.
The blue, blue sea is pricked by green sprouts of coral cays, and below the surface swim huge rays, parrot fish and lugubrious loggerhead turtles.
There's an explanation for the sprouts, of course, either in the conditions the potatoes have been stored in -- too warm, probably -- or simply in the cellular knowledge of the tubers themselves.
"This growing confidence [in switching], along with small sprouts of competition, means that we are now seeing people starting to vote with their feet when they're unhappy," said David Mann of comparison website uSwitch.com.
With her second husband, Howard Nathenson, a fine arts photographer, she visited Sunset Crater in Arizona, and the image of "little sprouts of vegetation, bright, bright green" rising through layers of gray and brick-red cinders inspired her.
Succulent duck meat appears not in a strudel but as the filling for delectable, light, deep-fried wrappers posed on a bed of crunchy wild mushrooms and sprouts of cress.
