The clipped, controlled sward in front of the family homestead, meticulously mown and shorn of alien growths, makes a potent symbol of suburban conformity and repressed individualism.
Travellers' ponies cropped the perfect sward in between long rows of identical reinforced concrete ammunition stores, each one a three-inch-thick shell.
"I'm not sure control is always the point," I said, meaning to go on, but we were diverted by the sight of a spotted woodpecker on the lawn, doing an excellent job of de-anting the sward.
And Börkur Jonsson's set is fantastic: a vertiginously sloping, verdant sward, a giant slide down which the actors swoop only to vanish, like rabbits, into hidden holes.
One of the lighthouses, built to reduce the casualties, lies along the road that describes a circuit of Ile du Havre-Aubert; the octagonal lighthouse of L'Anse-a-la-Cabane on Cap du Sud forms a perfect ensemble of white wooden buildings with the lighthouse-keeper's house and outbuildings on the green sward above sandstone cliffs.
Towering over me, Peck waved magisterially at a uniformed maid who came trotting over the perfect sward towards us.
Outside the central medina – the old, fortified historic district – there's the Agdal, a vast Islamic Versailles, while to the north-east of the city, 180,000 palm trees make up the Palmeraie, a green sward that runs all the way to the river Issil.
Like a gardener reading a seed catalogue and finding herself transported to spring, DeTroy Kistner considers the leafless sward that is now Central Park and sees a hedge-lined serpentine fence bisecting a verdant Sheep Meadow.
Naturally, the suburbanites in Toronto resent paying taxes for what at times can seem an oppressively virtuous, bike-path-and-green-sward, "I'll tolerate that, too!" urbane Toronto core.
Doug Sward is on his third house here, if you count the one he lived in before meeting his wife, Lori, and moving to Morris Plains for a few years.
Survived by his daughter Jodi Siegel Sward, her husband Brian Sward, grandchildren Zoe and Joseph, his sister and her husband, nieces, his former wife and many dear friends.
