The scene, with its green valleys and snow-capped peaks, made for a great all-day picnic.

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Walking through a field of boulders, we took in a vista of blue lakes, green forest and snow-capped peaks.

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When you arrive in the small rural hamlet of Cocora, the views from the single narrow mountain road spill out into an idyllic emerald valley that begs as many words for green as Eskimos have for snow.

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The power went out Friday around midnight after a large green lightning flash in the driving snow that plunged us into darkness.

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Snow also closed the A4117 at Rocks Green, near Ludlow.

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"There are all sorts of complicated arguments around that, but symbolically it's quite powerful to see green and red hillsides when normally there'd now be snow, " he continued.

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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.

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