They obey each other's directions as if playing a game, two men hopping about in the dead grass, scattering glowing pine needles like sparks.

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This is because leaves, and even pine needles can soak up a radio signal and cause the overall system to degrade during the spring and summer.

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The socks do a good job of repelling "trail grime, " the combination of mud, sweat, dirt and pine needles that can cling to a sock, she says.

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When the mulch on the ground is made of leaves from fall past, pine needles of winter present and ever-so-slight hints of green desperately attempting to push through.

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Woods hit a fairway metal off the pine needles and into a bunker, blasted out to 10 feet and rolled in the birdie putt to briefly take the lead.

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The road wound down to a barn and an open field, and then out of the sun and into the woods, where we ran over tree roots and pine needles.

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Other displays attempt to engage all the senses, even smell, as in a series of Texas landscapes that lets you sniff such specimens as pine needles, prickly pear flowers, skunk, and coyote urine.

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Henry stands and watches helplessly as the small fire he has birthed flows like brilliant liquid over the tree stump's ragged edges and into the dead grass and pine needles that carpet the barren slope from the water's edge to the lip of the woods.

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