"Hey, old man, you better leave that before you hurt yourself," called a gardener standing in the bed of the pickup.
After a few steps he stopped and pointed with pride at a stalk of dead fennel standing in a bed of moribund, wheat-colored joe-pye weed.
She recalls being with him in Haiti shortly after the earthquake; he was standing in the bed of a pickup truck, "with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth and a big smile on his face, and absolutely no fear".
A couple of miles away, in an old mill cottage, we discover an upturned tree standing in a bed of quartz and supporting a mill wheel in mid-air, a site-specific memory of long-gone industry.
"I read that script and I realized I was standing in my bed at the end of that script," Grant said about.
In the clip, Yoakam performs standing in the bed of a 1987 El Camino parked on Sunset Boulevard, and though the premise clearly excited him, the work of bringing it to the screen was taking a toll.
"As recently as the 2008 municipal runoff election between a white candidate and a black candidate for mayor," Mr. Gray said in a recent court filing, "I witnessed white men standing in the beds of pickup trucks systematically photographing black voters as they approached the polls at each voting location in Evergreen".
It is a small step from an adjustable satellite dish mount to a mount in which a shooter can traverse and elevate a machine gun while standing in a pickup bed.
"The bathroom reminds me of standing in a North Carolina stream bed, skipping stones," said Mrs. Carlin.
Mr. Ahad, who now lives in New York City, also took a picture of two boys standing in a shallow river bed.
