Often referred to as the jewel of the Caribbean for its grandiose colonial architecture, blue waters and sun drenched squares, Cartagena in Colombia combines old school elegance with a vibrant Latin soul.
The mountains shimmer blue when the sun hits the eucalyptus vapors from the trees, at night, the dense star patterns of the Southern Hemisphere sky also shimmer in the clearest skies, and crossing the path to your cottage at night, you may well encounter a wombat, wallaby or kangaroo the 4000 acres are filled with them.
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When I see the sun, blue sky and feel balmy breezes on my skin, my inner voice of resistance looses its strength.
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But a clear, cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more easily than they do red light.
Thousands of tourists are drawn to Sharm for its sun, clear blue water, and coral reefs.
With the bright blue sky and warm autumn sun, for a bizarre moment I remember thinking it looked more like a scene from a college brochure than the evacuation of a building under attack.
Deep into the autumn, every package or can I open takes me back to conversations around the cookhouse's huge stone fireplace, to wind rustling through alders, and sun-spangled blue-green water, to the promise of adventure every morning.
On a recent afternoon the sun shone brightly on Blue Springs, a town in the state's north-east thick with scrub trees and kudzu vines.
And the sky is blue, it says, because the sun produces white light which is made up of all the colours of the rainbow.
He followed the river upstream through the flooded bowl of the foothills, swollen with April rain, sleeping in empty riverboats while the sun, pale in the blue mist of the river, grew dimmer.
At sunset, the sun appears red (the blue light has been scattered out of that image, too), so the cells of the eye that detect red are overloaded and incapable of registering weaker red signals.
That other client--Barbara Campbell, a 55-year-old single mother with blonde hair, blue eyes and skin freckled by the Big Sky sun--toured the ranch by horseback only a week prior.
In Hong Kong, Chau expects that falling interest rates will help stocks as a whole, especially such blue-chip property developers as Cheung Kong and Sun Hung Kai Properties, both Chau holdings, since lower borrowing costs should stimulate demand for property. (Fair disclosure: Through cef Holdings, Cheung Kong is an investor in Chau's employer, TAL CEF Global Asset Management).
While ice reflects around 80 percent of the sun's heat, having a cooling effect, blue sea water can absorb up to 95 percent of solar radiation, warming up the sea and accelerating the melting process further.
In the Bolivian Andes, ice-blue glaciers crown amphitheatres of peaks, llamas graze quietly in the afternoon sun and the evening light fades into frigid mountain nights.
When the sun finally went down, the sky above the hills remained pale blue, the cloud bottoms all salmon and orange.
Find this orientation by looking through the crystal at the sky at a time when you can see the sun, mark the sun's direction on the crystal, and your mark will always point towards the sun when you match the beams from even a tiny patch of blue in an otherwise overcast sky.
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As the sun always rises, so do dust storms slowly disperse and surrender to blue skies.
In the sun room, for example, where Mr. Ye kept the traditional blue-gray-black wall paintings, the workers decided to save money by using plastic in the ceiling blinds instead of the wooden slats Mr. Ye had requested.
When, in mid-afternoon, the sun dips behind the mountain and my skis suddenly criss-cross ice-blue shadows, I am reminded of the more sinister snippets of local folklore my hosts have passed on: the wizard Fida, who lived in a cave above the valley and sold his soul to the devil, and the evil little spirits, parkeljni, who rattle their chains as they lie in wait for naughty children.
The aroma alone of the fragrant cilantro-garlic paste invokes the relentless sun, colorful souks, bustling medinas and miles and miles of sparsely populated, blue and gold coastline that for me is quintessential Morocco.
Keene couldn't use regular paint because the sun and the elements would ruin it, so he used gold-leaf metals in blue, gold and green.
Folks argue about whether the sun rises in the east and whether it sets in the west, whether the sky is blue. (Laughter.) There's always going to be arguments in Washington.
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Hidden in a hangar at the US Navy's Patuxent River Air Base, in Maryland, away from prying eyes and shaded from the intense sun, US and British ground crew made the final preparations before the plane took to the clear blue skies.
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