At the hotel, a picture window in the open-plan communal area looks out over a swimming pool to a verdant scene of hills, woods and sky, which on my first morning is framed by an enormous rainbow.
A great verdant scene, mottled with the blackened gray of the temples below, unfurled itself before me.
But although the forested streets and urban parks create pleasant, verdant scenes in summer, the city has little of the Silk Road charm of neighboring cities like Samarkand and Bukhara in Uzbekistan.
Beginning with lush and verdant scenes accompanied by the sounds of rushing waters and birds, Rokab cuts to the hectic pace of modern urban life.
Chris Beardshaw has created a rich, verdant woodland scene, sprinkled with pockets of colourful planting and a water feature to provide a reflective space for the families of children undergoing treatment.
The visuals, meanwhile, bring to mind the anime of Studio Ghibli, with verdant rural scenes and slightly hazy colours.
His works have been associated strongly with 19th century Romanticism as they recall the writing of J.K. Huysmans and Oscar Wilde in their barely-concealed queerness, abounding with beautiful boys sipping wine in verdant nature scenes.
The scene, a verdant, bucolic hillside, was meant to invoke a meditative setting suitable for prayer.
Some of their creations have an irreverent sense of humor: small verdant worlds that feature scenes like muggings, complete with tiny shadowy scoundrels.
Although many viewers will emerge dissatisfied, the bathos with which "Hollywoodland" drifts to a close struck me as true to the times — to a sense of the fifties, so verdant in the early scenes, winding up as a burnt-out case, with Simo pacing a city the color of scorched grass.
The luminous scenes of verdant parks and splendidly attired people — between 12 and 19 inches deep and up to 138 feet long — were backlighted with natural daylight, wound between spindles and viewed in a boxlike precursor to the television, often accompanied by music or narrated by Carmontelle himself.
