But Whistler makes for a long, expensive and potentially stressful daytrip, especially on dark winter evenings when the winding Sea-to-Sky Highway can be tricky to negotiate in a car.
Another alternative is to let peripheral Europe leave the zone and rebuild it with Denmark and Sweden as a kind of "dark winter night" economic zone, based on sound principles and weak beer.
John Walsh, a technology administrator at Deutsche Bank, managed to catch a glimpse of the delicate, dark brown winter wren after he broke away from DiCostanzo's group on a recent morning.
Outside the front door, the air was New England chilly, fresh with the beginning of spring, and I wheeled my chair through the big door, down the ramp onto the sidewalk, thinking of Joey Buckley's brown eyes, deep and dark as winter ponds.
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The sky was gray near the tops of the mountains, as gray as a dark day in winter.
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But while the winter months are dark, treacherous and shrouded in a white uniform of snow, summer brings with it the chance to see this part of the world in all its green grassy goodness.
The trees, however, were bare, creating dark, bleak silhouettes against an anaemic winter sky.
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As winter settled deep into the dark flesh of the barks and branches shielding sunlight away from my window, the one thing I kept thinking about was where do people go to recover?
Summer or winter, firefighters walk into dark passageways in burning buildings, burdened by heavy fireproof coats and pants, air bottles strapped to backs, faces masked and vision tunneled, each in a private world.
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In winter, when the sky got dark early and Mother worried about her making the long commute home, Naima would sleep on my bedroom floor.
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Winter, city life (with the concomitant shadows cast by tall buildings) and dark skin in dark climates all reduce this action.
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There is clear evidence that winter storms throughout southern Scandinavia were more frequent and intense during the multi-century Dark Ages Cold Period and the much more recent Little Ice Age than either now or other comparably warm periods.
Dark sand shown in one photo pokes through bright, crisp frost structures that formed in the previous winter.
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