Nothing is to be seen but skinny black spruce trees and islands of spreading juniper and bogs.
Upholstered chairs surround a long black table overlooking a manicured row of trees on one side and a sculptural black-and-white fossil on the other.
Brittle-looking birch trees with black marks on their white bark, and some small, untidy evergreens, rolled up like sleepy bears.
Though it's pleasantly bisected by a faux running stream, with comfortable seating and towering embalmed trees (black olive, bamboo and Washingtonian palm) to gaze at, I saw no clients using it during my recent visit to the spa, perhaps because its location is a bit too public (all spa clients needing access to the changing rooms must walk around the atrium).
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There had been a fresh fall of snow the night before, and the fences and trees stood out black against it.
As you head up the mountains and the forest advances to the edge of the country roads, you can easily make out the ownership markings of individual bamboo trees written in black Chinese characters on their trunks.
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First, they established that black-cherry seedlings growing near adult trees did, indeed, do badly.
It takes seven or eight hours and strong legs to hike the whole crossing, past ice-blue crater lakes, over snow-covered ridges and through windswept mountain deserts, where totara trees cling to the soft black volcanic sand.
The production, created for the Welsh National Opera, was abstract and minimalist: Johan Engels's design featured a semicircle of dark bleachers and a forest of tilted black crosses that appeared intermittently, representing trees or pillars, and serving as a reminder of the overwhelming power of the Catholic Church.
At the center of the plant is a rest area where black marble pools, bordered with fake coconut trees, reflect the glass ceiling.
When he was near the house, the dogs, black as liquorice, came out of the trees, stopped, heads up, looked around as if seeing the land for the first time.
Soon the trees disappeared, the gradient increased and the soil became black and powder-fine.
Colorful beaded necklaces dangle from the branches of brown-paper trees that line the walls, and old-fashioned black metal streetlamps line the hallway.
Get lost on the roads that wind their way up and down the hills of the Black Forest, where the summer sun filters through the canopy of trees to dapple the road in front of you.
Video from CNN affiliate Central Florida News 13 showed white smoke rising from a large, black hole in the one-story house, which is surrounded by trees.
The riverbed is OK. The trees there are green, but the slopes on both side are all black.
They were drawn by memories of hominy grits, pole beans, black-eyed peas, oxtail and collard greens, of mimosa, locust and dogwood trees.
In June the trees were bright dizzy green, but later the leaves darkened, and the town turned black and shrunken under the glare of the sun.
Sun dapples the fairways, and wind rustles the trees in each of the 15 courses it has captured so far, including Congressional, Bethpage Black, Olympic Club, Pinehurst No. 8, the Old Course at St.
Below was the wilderness, then the perfectly square clearings in the trees, and, finally, as we headed into Fort McMurray, the vast pits and the black ponds, with the bitumen bobbing on top.
After viewing scenes that involved green trees, participants reported feeling happier and their exercise less difficult than when the same scenes appeared in black-and-white or red, suggesting that exercising in nature or simulated green spaces could be helpful for exercisers, says Dr. Micklewright.
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