The Lake of Luxury? (Yes, those are all real names.) How about a mountaintop upon which the sun never sets?
Richard Berkley, from Playhatch, said he had lived with a "lake of raw sewage" outside his home intermittently since early December.
Louis, recently signed a contract to buy a three-bedroom house with a boat dock and a swimming platform on the shore of Lake of the Ozarks, a Missouri vacation spot.
On the valley floor stands the frozen lake of St Moritz -- home to an unlikely event of similar vintage -- "White Turf" -- horse racing on snow and ice.
Oil receipts are thought to be down by one-third on the beginning of the year, while the industry struggles to acquire equipment and to build storage to hold the growing lake of oil for which buyers have not been found.
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Hikers travel from the shores of Lake Te Anau to the shores of Lake Manapouri via a full-day tramp along an exposed ridge, looking down on the park's namesake fiords.
They were up on a picnic table at that park by the lake, by the edge of the lake, with part of a downed tree in the shallows half hidden by the bank.
The landowners, Brandreth Park Association and Friends of Thayer Lake, had sued Phil Brown of Saranac Lake after he wrote an article in the Adirondack Explorer newspaper in 2009 about canoeing from Lake Lila to Little Tupper Lake in the state-owned Whitney Wilderness Area.
Thus, it is not possible for a pollutant to affect only a portion of a lake, nor is it possible to treat only a portion of a lake.
At its most delightful, it weaves along wooded shoreline of Lake Washington with views of snow-capped mountains crowding the horizon.
Serious commercial activity began in the 1790s with the development of salt springs along the edge of Onondaga Lake, part of present-day Syracuse.
Tar balls and oily water were spotted on Monday near the mouth of Lake Pontchartrain, a large lake to the north of New Orleans, in Louisiana.
Consider the history of Lake Chad as an ecample of the desertification problem in the region.
Another imagines her sitting along the shores of Lake Mendota on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
But when it comes time for his convalescence, he still gets a luxury view: the stunning terraced gardens of Villa del Balbianello, an Italian villa on the western shore of Lake Como near the village of Lenno.
Three weeks after the arrest, Koenig's dismembered body was found in a frozen lake north of Anchorage.
"When our laws talk about theft, they refer to movable properties, not information, " says law professor Khaw Lake Tee of the University of Malaya.
Using a joystick, a geographer can float above the Earth, then zoom in on the bottom of Lake Tahoe, with no loss of detail.
Set on the western edge of the lake, the town of Lucerne is as placid as the waters in which its medieval buildings are reflected.
Biologists surmise that fish in the lake have high levels of organochlorines caused by chemicals accumulating in ponds and ditches on the land off the northeast part of the lake.
Even before this flow of offal, raw sewage so polluted the shores of Lake Michigan that in the summer of 1854 typhoid and dysentery claimed 60 lives a day in Chicago.
After relocating from their native Kentucky to the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1997, the twins joined blues-rock act Slydell as backup singers and began to collaborate with other musicians, including Lewis.
More than 300 white pelicans, 23 endangered wood storks, 50 other fish-eating birds (great blue herons, cormorants, ring-billed gulls, common egrets), and three bald eagles have died near the lake northwest of Orlando.
Perhaps the most important aspect of the campaign she's mounted with her group Friends of Lake Turkana (FoLT) consists of talking to the communities that make up a variegated and neglected social landscape with a literacy rate barely above 10%.
Left to savor are virtuoso touches, like a flock of birds that becomes useless paper, a train that glides along the surface of a lake, and one of the great villains of all time, Yubaba, who looks like a bobble-headed grandmother on speed.
Just where to look for the house and grounds (and whether you're also looking for that all important lake, of course) depends which adaptation you favor: The 1995 TV version was filmed at Lyme Park in Cheshire (exterior scenes), and Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire (interior scenes).
Even with our potentially top player on injured reserve (the Atlantic sturgeon is currently under a commercial fishing ban), companies like Sterling, Tsar Nicoulai and Seattle Caviar are offering subtle, very caviary-tasting roe from the Pacific Coast white sturgeon, the lake sturgeon of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, and even from the oddly abundant paddlefish, a distant sturgeon cousin.
In my 20 years in the East Lake neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, I have had the opportunity to talk to seniors and others in the area about childhood memories of a vibrant, living community: walks to the corner drugstore, fresh food at local markets, movies at the area theatre, and boat rides on the lake in the park.
On the Lake Fork of the Gunnison river, not far from the Taylor drama, one rafting company was hit with a civil trespass suit in 2001, but went out of business before the courts could resolve it. (A fence now runs across the water on the Lake Fork.) And what about all the times that rafters get stuck on the rocks?
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