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Once you recognize the problem — patchy lawns, thin lawns, etc.
In May of 2017, he began his first trip to mow lawns in all 50 states, which he called "50 States 50 Lawns".
Surrounding the home are terraces and manicured lawns and gardens.
They do not like the sunny, manicured areas of lawns.
In the summer of 1982, my job was cutting lawns.
Wild parsnip can grow anywhere — fields, lawns, pastures, roadsides, etc.
Campaign signs dot lawns where voters are queued in Indianapolis.
Angry about those damn kids who walk across their lawns.
Roundup is also sprayed on residential lawns and golf courses.
Francesca traipsed over people's lawns and rapped hard on doors.
Blossoms, lawns and other bulbs are a foil to tulips.
Little girls don't belong on the lawns of large corporations.
Seeding or reseeding lawns takes a great deal of work.
The lawns were pristine and stretched into the middle distance.
They eat lawns and can be a danger to drivers.
Boat trailers park on front lawns; swimming pools are abundant.
I have been mowing my neighbors' lawns for some time.
Manicured lawns and a contemporary pool overlook the ocean beyond.
In the summer of 1982 my job was cutting lawns.
The architects decided not to plant ornamental gardens and manicured lawns.
Kids accept the challenge to mow 50 lawns in their neighborhood.
Hundreds roll down Parliament House lawns for one last time pic.twitter.
Trees were uprooted and thrown across lawns; power lines were crushed.
Residents of southern Florida recently found "frozen" iguanas on their lawns.
There are shuttle buses, mega-cafeterias, landscaped lawns and koi ponds.
The event marked William's first garden party on the palace lawns.
Lawns have faded to brown and swimming pools have gone dry.
It has equally majestic residences, but the lawns grow more freely.
Today, it's nothing but swanky mansions with acres of manicured lawns.
We passed country clubs and grand houses surrounded by rolling lawns.
It has equally majestic residences but the lawns grow more freely.
In block after block, people hosted impromptu tailgates on their lawns.
People rent them out to crop their lawns and control weeds.
These prim, oft-mowed lawns also had more weeds and pests.
Not the residents who find overdosed young adults on their lawns.
It seems almost criminal to avoid them in favor of lawns.
They clear rubbish from lawns, rehabilitate abandoned properties and pester slumlords.
"Think about turning big open lawns into bird habitat," he says.
Worst case, I thought, I could mow lawns for my neighbors.
Drab Soviet apartment blocks cram a town without parks, lawns, or trees.
Don't embody the protagonist of Law Mower and mow strangers' lawns though.
It's how you spend your downtime, like mowing lawns and painting walls.
It's long stretches of sidewalk, it's rolling lawns of an open park.
But Xi didn't settle on Mar-a-Lago for its sprawling lawns.
Couples said their vows on infinite green lawns spread between towering elms.
"Avoid using pesticides within homes or on lawns and gardens," Landrigan added.
Industrial chemical runoff from farms, lawns and golf courses also hurts reefs.
Then lawns turn to curated dust pits, pocked with loose, yellow tussocks.
Maybe this is why we like to bury our dead underneath lawns.
The remaining 292 acres consist mostly of lawns, fields, and forested areas.
It was in Huntsville that he started by mowing lawns for free.
The tactic seems to be working out well on Wimbledon's fast lawns.
When reporters asked Frank if he'd mow their lawns, Sanders cut in.
Barbecues set up on lawns were poised for weekend grills with family.
Giant spiders made from balloons dwarf whole homes, headless horsemen haunt lawns.
Boats washed up on people's lawns and on the Brielle Avenue bridge.
"They're everywhere, and they're going to pee on people's lawns," he said.
In fact, failed lawns are often an excellent place to start searching.
Lawns and trees punctuate the street in a pattern of vivid green.
From high boughs, above manicured lawns, warblers and sparrows emit throaty chirps.
And presto: Lawns, orchards and alfalfa bloom in the sandy, alluvial soil.
Landscaping and lawn service supervisors manage the teams that care for lawns.
The property has stone walls, expansive lawns, mature trees and simple plantings.
Today you can see examples of witches' broom on ordinary suburban lawns.
A large outdoor deck wraps around the entire home, overlooking landscaped lawns.
Public parks are more than the leisure lawns they masquerade as today.
They'd like their kitchens remodeled, their lawns mowed, and their taxes prepared.
IN 2021 Charterhouse's hushed cloisters and vast, immaculate lawns will welcome new arrivals.
For more tips on how to create beautiful lawns and landscapes, visit LoveYourLandscape.org.
But humans place birdbaths and water lawns; they build swimming pools and fountains.
The only green thing he liked were the rolling lawns of his farm.
Minnesota program will pay homeowners to transform lawns into bee gardens, we report.
He made a goal -- to mow 40 lawns by the end of winter.
Students can't neatly mimic the island's physical landscape on their own campus lawns.
You're going into their town, and they're sitting on their lawns with hoses.
Inside, there are vast parking lots, a cavernous employee cafeteria, lawns and fountains.
As a teenager, he mowed lawns for neighbors who were like extended family.
In Montville and Norwich, however, front lawns are seen as the public sphere.
A careful ratio of places to live, work, eat and recline on lawns.
There are also 9,000 square feet of shared outdoor space, including sloping lawns.
Lawns need to be mowed, air filters changed, windows caulked and appliances repaired.
Other people would walk around the lawns, sunbathe, and do calisthenics, Fehrenbacher said.
In high school, he mowed lawns and worked at his father's Buick dealership.
Outdoor space: The large property has lawns, specimen trees, perennials and stone walls.
People walk around the lawns, play soccer, sunbathe, and do calisthenics, he said.
A: I was too young for that, so I actually started cutting lawns.
The man who mowed lawns for vets and the disabled in 50 states Last summer, Rodney Smith Jr. set out to voluntary mow 50 lawns in 50 states -- and help the elderly, the disabled, single moms and veterans along the way.
Residents dealt with their new reality of crisp, yellow lawns and dusty, unwashed cars.
Then there are those those pesky herbicides used to keep cemetery lawns looking nice.
Think money from tutoring, babysitting, mowing lawns or even raking leaves and shoveling snow.
Juvenile fireflies are especially harmed when these insecticides are sprayed on lawns and gardens.
The pool is flanked by perfectly manicured lawns, and there's even a mini waterfall.
"Agriculture and lawns will almost certainly be profoundly affected by then," Holthaus told me.
Now, when she walks around the neighborhood, all she sees is dead brown lawns.
The lawns were tidily landscaped with hedges of lavender, succulents, cactuses and kumquat trees.
We've attended children's birthday parties here, thrown Frisbees and picnicked on the wide lawns.
If you have a new way to mow lawns, start by selling regular lawnmowers.
The property has sprawling lawns, a spring-fed lake and many old shade trees.
By 2007, these included severe limits on car washing and watering gardens and lawns.
The advantage he has playing tennis is far greater than he has mowing lawns.
They treat lawns and gardens like a salad bar and tangle with household pets.
The local government asked people to limit activities like watering lawns and washing cars.
Lawns get bare spots — kids wear out the grass playing, insects invade, droughts happen.
Outdoor space: The one-acre property has broad lawns, specimen trees and a playhouse.
And when there were no lawns to mow or cars to wash, he'd panhandle.
But just past the manicured lawns and paved driveways are signs of economic distress.
Outdoor space: The gated 1.03-acre lot includes lawns and gardens studded with sculpture.
At hundreds of schools, students demonstrated by walking out onto football fields and lawns.
We get our oil changed, we go to the dentist, we mow our lawns.
Since then, Williams has won five of her seven majors on these iconic lawns.
It's everywhere — on our lawns, peaking around the side of streets, blanketing golf courses.
When asked how lawns could be mowed in Antarctica, Smith said, "We also snow shovel!"
We live in concrete cities, deal only with managed forms of nature -- farms, lawns, medians.
Phoebe's friends loved plotting intricate pranks; they hosted lavish parties, springing naked through college lawns.
They do the design and maintenance for lawns, gardens, golf courses and other outdoor spaces.
The half-empty city has been kept spotless, the lawns mowed and pavements swept clean.
Bush Terminal Piers Park, an oasis of athletic fields and hilly lawns, opened in 259.
Lawns require a lot of attention, much of which I am not willing to give.
But Andrew told his sister the water was only knee deep in her neighbors' lawns.
Others have ended up in trees or simply in the middle of sidewalks and lawns.
But we don't all have lawns, so what are the rest of us to do?
He hurled racial epithets at those who came to work on their lawns, they alleged.
Prior to the June 20 eruption, it was a verdant land, with well-manicured lawns.
Signs were put up in lawns and roadway medians thanking Clinton for decades of service.
This includes flushing toilets, taking showers or baths, brushing teeth, running dishwashers and watering lawns.
The lawns were too neat, the lights were wrong and the tables no longer wobbled.
All lawns are a kind of plant taxidermy, sculpture made from botany gutted and flattened.
Signs supporting Jones scattered across lawns around Fairhope are raising some eyebrows in the area.
Cars have been left to collect a patina of dirt and lawns have turned brown.
The sweeping lawns slope down to several tiered ponds that flow into one large pond.
Carter went to Princeton and seemed to thrive amid the ivy walls and green lawns.
The neighbors walking by or working on their lawns were black, white, Hispanic and Asian.
Signs reading "Just Say No to NorthPoint" and "No More Trucks" sprouted on front lawns.
That's when herds flock in from all directions to munch the lush lawns and parkways.
The 15,667-square-foot home sits on three acres with expansive lawns, vineyards, and fountains.
By late September, pumpkins, ghouls and their warty, fanged companions were already decorating the lawns.
I noticed that many lawns have been replaced by beds of small, jagged red stones.
Beyond the well-kept lawns and hedges are seething hives of adultery, anomie and addiction.
Entrepreneurship, such as it is, subsists in their offering to cut neighborhood lawns for money.
Lawns surround the main house, and oaks and Japanese maples are planted at a distance.
From all sides, from the sky, from the storm drains, and even people's front lawns.
As a result, some drivers back into things — lawns, mailboxes, parked cars, and sometimes, people.
Beige port-a-potties dot the intersections of residential streets, where unmowed lawns grow unruly.
The idealistic facade of manicured lawns and homogeneity is easily cracked when considering the statistics.
Finland, for example, launched a pilot program to mow lawns to make up some revenue. Sen.
Later, he was given a guard of honor on the lawns of the prime minister's house.
Neighbors will come together to grill hot dogs in their back lawns, or in city parks.
Together, they maintain the gardens, lawns and trees, among them stately copper beeches and horse chestnuts.
Others dread pacing back and forth across their lawns while the hot sun sears their skin.
A million people can come onto their property, ruin their lawns, and walk over that bridge.
The pair's bucolic property includes rolling green lawns, stone walls and even a charming private pond.
The 118 adult and baby goats roamed the manicured lawns in Boise, the Idaho Statesman reported .
And in January, a person accidentally crashed a drone onto the lawns of the White House.
Dogs scampered along dirt roads, past dilapidated houses and junked cars rusting on wild, unkempt lawns.
Across the region, driveways, front lawns and curbs are covered with what was once inside homes.
Even alive, lawns occupy a state of eerie, suspended animation, bereft of seeding and grass flowers.
We wanted to make sure people didn't keep pouring water on their lawns with wild abandon.
The program would cover up to 75 percent of expenses for homeowners to transform their lawns.
In Hugo, residents were still bathing, watering their lawns and doing the dishes with the water.
The project's tract houses stood behind green lawns and weeping willow trees and generous blacktopped driveways.
I worked for many years as a little kid — mowing lawns, shoveling snow, and washing trucks.
More than half the patients he sees with the allergy were bitten on their own lawns.
There are winding, private roads that lead to big, flat lawns the size of football fields.
He worked a series of odd jobs, mowing lawns and working, notably, for a dental surgeon.
People cleared needles off their lawns, their front steps and the sidewalks where their children played.
White Southerners erected these monuments in city parks and on courthouse lawns and university campus quads.
On Tuesday, Mr. Lamb, whose campaign signs dot the manicured lawns, won both by 10 points.
They were built to American standards, with lush lawns that opened onto pine-tree-lined streets.
Even in this digital age, lawns need to be mowed and lemonade stands can break even.
That water inundates streets and lawns when the tides and winds conspire to push it inland.
And this isn't just the soil found in untrammeled nature, but even beneath our busiest lawns.
Across the city, lawns are brown and dying -- and many plants are barely clinging to life.
Here, about a dozen miles from Bacon's home, the only sound was of lawns being mowed.
Lemonis earned money while attending Marquette University by mowing lawns and working as a club promoter.
He worked after school, on the weekends, mowing lawns, just helping as many people as possible.
If you look closely enough, you might notice fairies adorning stoops and lawns in your neighborhood.
"Lawns are a significant environmental problem," said David Mizejewski, a naturalist with the National Wildlife Federation.
Landscapers often apply chemicals to lawns at more than double the concentrations used in industrial agriculture.
They have torn up lawns, harassed cyclists, chased the postman daily, and even attacked young children.
Four days later, lava had spread across lawns and completely consumed homes before cooling, and turning black.
Bailey said Henderson, a prison trustee, had cleaned flower beds and mowed lawns around the housing complex.
Occasional over-seeding can also help cut down on weeds over time, especially in thinner lawns. 3.
So he would take me along, and I would mow lawns and water plants and carry fertilizer.
True heroes are great multi-taskers: they stop bad guys, save good ones and mow people's lawns.
I drove through neighborhoods with mountains of wrecked furniture and ripped-out walls tossed on front lawns.
We ambled around the college lawns, ducking through medieval doorways in and out of the hot sun.
They've mowed and removed topsoil from lawns, and used high-pressure washers to clean buildings and roads.
The cicadas rev up as the summer sun bakes the carefully tended lawns of suburban Dublin, Ohio.
A choice statistic from this case: Countrywide charged some borrowers in foreclosure $22010 to mow their lawns.
Animals also run wild around the city — moose, in particular, regularly make appearances on residents' front lawns.
With 35 homes, manicured lawns and palm trees, the circular, gated street is an exclusive enclave. Sen.
He takes submissions to decide what lawns he'll mow, both on his website and on social media.
Amid palms and manicured cypress trees is a series of terraces, leading to lawns and courtyard areas.
They recalled him repeatedly shouting at a man who cuts their lawns, calling him a n***er.
Here's what else is happening: Just when we thought it was safe to lunch on lawns again.
A city ordinance in that community said that only "suitable" plants could be grown on front lawns.
And some changes — such as replacing lawns with drought-tolerant plants — produced permanent reductions in water use.
By the end of that week, three lawns on our short block, including ours, had Raybould signs.
They are hated on lawns but their strong stems hold their yellow heads high and they persist.
Using less water to flood fields or lawns means more water to build suburbs in desert cities.
When Ms. Markle emerged from the car, the thousands of people on the lawns burst into applause.
OUTDOOR SPACE The house is set against a hill, with open lawns to the east and west.
Frank Giaccio, 11, has a Falls Church, Va.-based business mowing lawns for several of his neighbors.
A neighbor said that, as a teenager, Cosmo DiNardo would volunteer to cut lawns and shovel snow.
"Many times in my career," he admitted after adding the hallowed Wimbledon lawns to that unfortunate tendency.
Today, the couple are trying to grow a business cultivating crops on suburban lawns on Long Island.
During his junior high and high school summers, he had a one-man business cutting neighbors' lawns.
Immigrants who do work mowing lawns, cleaning pools, and other household activities likely have a similar impact.
In the summer of 1982, my job was cutting lawns, I had my own business of sorts, you see some specifics about the lawn cutting listed on the calendar page, when I had to time the last lawn cuttings of the summer of various lawns before football training camp.
The home has 315 feet of space facing the ocean, and sweeping green lawns in front and back.
At the other end of the spectrum, caring for natural lawns can also be problematic for the environment.
In fact, Smith has been to all 50 states five times each, mowing lawns for people in need.
A broadcast spreader, which will spray or broadcast the seed widely, is a better bet for larger lawns.
Per the New York Daily News, "multiple homeowners" have allegedly noticed human feces suddenly appearing on their lawns.
Related: Provocative Photos of a Female Artist Laying Down on Frat House Lawns Then there's the outright misogyny.
If you don't happen to live in Minnesota, you may be interested in alternatives to turf-based lawns.
A ride on the lazy river carries you under several bridges and along the property's perfectly manicured lawns.
The migraine-inducing florescent pink of the sky in "July" evokes the hissing heat of the summer lawns.
Free speech has become a partisan issue, a debate sowing division across football stadiums and campus lawns alike.
Subdued children play, eerily quiet, against a backdrop of toxic lawns, oily creeks, tainted vegetation, and sere trees.
Even some of the most successful people out there began their professional lives washing dishes and mowing lawns.
"Easily hundreds more requests for each event," said DeLine, owner of J&R Lawns and Landscapes in Syracuse.
Many of his colleagues wait tables, mow lawns or drive for ride-share services to make ends meet.
They were selling a vision of the American Dream, complete with quarter-acre lawns, dishwashers and spacious garages.
Picture a suburb and you probably imagine cookie-cutter houses with two-car garages and over-fertilized lawns.
Throughout the South, statues of Confederate heroes and soldiers were placed in public squares and on courthouse lawns.
I would mow lawns, and use tractors to clear brush, and get paid something like $2 an hour.
The Garden District in New Orleans has streets lined with mansions, manicured lawns, and gorgeous live oak trees.
It's a sleepy waterfront neighborhood of tree-lined streets, manicured lawns and salty breezes off the East River.
"That night, I decided to mow lawns for the elderly, disabled, single moms and veterans," Smith told CNN.
We work in two shifts, and there could be 20 to 35 operators mowing lawns at one time.
Millions of trees died and thousands of lawns disappeared as homeowners were encouraged to tear up their grass.
Here a man cuts his lawns just up from one of Grafton's main roads, which is entirely submerged.
But soil on open and developed land — like golf courses and backyard lawns — was better at absorbing carbon.
And in neighborhoods across Atlanta, few residents seemed to have removed the campaign signs from their front lawns.
Manicured lawns and stone paths separate the main house from a guesthouse that was once the main residence.
Owners of one- and two-family houses are not permitted to park their cars on their front lawns.
OUTDOOR SPACE The house sits on a 2841-acre lot with a series of small lawns and gardens.
"No wake" signs warn cars to slow to a crawl so the brackish water does not inundate lawns.
I remember gazing out the window in awe as gorgeous mansions with perfect manicured lawns came into view.
One embassy was using sheep to pick at their lawns, instead of hiring folks to cut the grass.
Some mow lawns for neighbors and wash their parents' cars; others simply hand out compliments to their peers.
The Parc Montsouris offered open space with rolling green lawns and black swans gliding over a placid lake.
"It was, like, my spot," she says, as we drive past gracious colonial-style homes with manicured lawns.
For low-earning kids with odd jobs like delivering newspapers or mowing lawns, it might not seem worthwhile.
Then he finds her, her tiny frame a black smudge of a silhouette against the perfectly white lawns.
In the North, lawns do better with cool-season grasses such as Kentucky bluegrass, fine fescue, or perennial ryegrass.
This has led to restrictions in the number of days residents can water lawns as well as other rules.
When I had to time the last lawn cuttings of the summer of various lawns before football training camp.
The company has insurance and will follow up with residents whose lawns were damaged by the goats, police said.
"Mowing lawns with one of those mowers you can ride is something I always wanted to do," he says.
Every gardener needs a shovel to dig holes, break up soil, remove tough weeds, and edge lawns and trenches.
Heaps of drenched furniture, mattresses and toys were piled up on lawns as owners struggled to find anything salvageable.
Rocks, stones and gravel cut down on areas used for lawns and water-hungry plants, substantially reducing water usage.
Lemonis started mowing lawns and working as a club promoter in college, before he got into the automobile industry.
"I think that the majority of Californians understand that the era of lush green lawns is over," he said.
We're talking confrontations on overgrown lawns in rundown towns, blubbering heartbreak in real time, and Nev's self-satisfied smirk.
And there have been complaints that the scooters are carelessly tossed aside on sidewalks, parks, plazas and even lawns.
Callers are received, letters are opened, gossip is breathlessly exchanged and long walks are taken on beautifully manicured lawns.
It is a high-schooler adjusting his expectations from going to college to joining the Army to mowing lawns.
When you watch television from the late 20th century, all the lawns look like AstroTurf, even if they weren't.
He started the "50 lawn challenge," which encourages young people to mow 50 lawns for those who need help.
This summer, Smith is traveling to all 50 states to mow lawns for people who need help -- for free.
When Lemonis was in college at Marquette University, he continued mowing lawns and even worked as a club promoter.
When I had the time, the last lawn cuttings of the summer of various lawns before football training camp.
These jobs are purposefully mindless mini-games, consisting of everything from knocking coconuts out of trees to mowing lawns.
Squared-off bluish green lawns contrast sharply with the artist's network of showy geometrical shapes and unlikely color pairings.
I mowed lawns in summer, raked leaves in the fall and shoveled snow in winter to make a buck.
A majority of the large-scale installations are set in the expansive lawns of Tamar, just outside Art Central.
Half of the pleasures are outdoors, between the spectacular blooming gardens and lawns; the somewhat sparse dacha, reflecting Mrs.
Finland, for example, launched a pilot program to have postal workers mow lawns to make up some revenue. Sen.
Outdoor space: The 0.23-acre property has planted gravel beds and brick-edged lawns requiring little water to maintain.
Someone, presumably, is going to pay the college faculty and the folks who mow the lawns at those colleges.
The area's well-maintained mansions and tidy lawns are a far cry from the city's iconic decaying colonial buildings.
Kids learn there's a balancing act between doing the actual business — mowing lawns, for instance — and sales and marketing.
At the Sabarmati Ashram, the former home of India's independence hero Mahatma Gandhi, laborers watered lawns and painted walls.
Most lawns in town are already brown and some homeowners skip showers in favor of watering, Mr. Haggmark said.
Even if you don't share the American passion for care-intensive grassy lawns, there are ways to go greener.
Passing through what appears to be his old neighborhood is bittersweet as he views "For Sale" signs scattered across lawns.
Users will be able to adjust grass height, as well as schedule whether their lawns are mowed day or night.
Stay away from any gators seen on lawns or in garages; call for proper trained help to come remove them.
The presence of yard trees, garden hoses or sprinklers, and lawns, were all found to be negatively associated with crime.
But Minnesota is measuring lawns by a different yardstick: the growing concern about the impact of grass on the environment.
American homeowners have an obsession with green lawns — and with farming out maintenance of them, spending billions annually on verdancy.
About the length of three American-football fields, the bridge would have lawns, waterfalls, an amphitheatre and a picnic garden.
Luzerne County is traditionally Democratic, but Trump has drawn massive crowds here, and his signs dot lawns throughout the area.
With freshly manicured lawns dot the tree-lined streets near Francis Howell North High School, where Burke went to school.
Her street started to go downhill, she says, as people crammed cars onto lawns and stopped taking care of homes.
The campaign signs dotting the lawns of the stately homes in Chester County, Pennsylvania give away the county's swing status.
Next she shows off, "what Mapperton is known for," including rolling lawns, gorgeous ponds, and an endless array of flowers.
Maybe people leaving the Blue App would have spent their time on Snapchat or watching Netflix or mowing their lawns.
But even the strangest of Halloween decorations are not nearly as bad as those who fill their lawns with inflatables.
But as the show's first trailer revealed, Santa Clarita Diet isn't just a sendup of trimmed lawns and nosy neighbors.
Video technology has so advanced that, in contrast, the lawns from the early years of color TV blur and saturate.
" It is "nestled on 1.51 acres of spectacular property encompassing in-ground pool, level lawns, stone walls and mature trees.
Lawns were overgrown and raggedy, flower beds were clogged with dead leaves, and trash was strewn over the paving stones.
Artists can arrange to plant their easels on the lawns and perhaps turn the changing weather patterns into abstract forms.
An Alabama man this week finished traveling to all 50 states mowing lawns for free for veterans, ABC News reported.
Last year, Smith, 73, decided to try something new -- travel across the country to mow lawns for people in need.
On the other hand, the psychologist testified, the young Bobby Moore had shown skill at mowing lawns and playing pool.
The exception is when actual children appear onscreen, dancing on suburban lawns and plucking at leaves and blades of grass.
Mr. Wheeler said that Brown's signature design was a central focal point, usually a grand house surrounded by wide lawns.
As a result, residents could reportedly be fined $50 for each day they continued to grow vegetables on their lawns.
This is Florida, after all, the state that hates to pay taxes and where Trump signs litter my neighborhood's lawns.
Both heel-focused products prevent damage caused by uneven surfaces and resist sinking into lawns during garden ceremonies and receptions.
For much of that stretch, a ribbon of lawns, trees and hedges unfurls between the avenue's northbound and southbound arteries.
This was a neighborhood, South Shore, where "people tended to their lawns and kept track of their children," she writes.
The park is a quiet reprieve from the high-rise canyons that surround it, with grassy lawns and curving paths.
No Ferguson officers have fatally shot anyone since Brown's death, and the police outreach has extended to cutting residents' lawns.
Until then, he plans to use the $115 a day he makes mowing lawns to pay for school and rent.
With its ornate 20,000-square-foot ballroom and manicured lawns, President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla.
Lawns were divided by hedges of yew and rhododendron and paths bordered by brilliant flowers, specimen magnolias, cypresses and conifers.
Outdoor space: The house occupies a corner lot with lawns and hedges and is wrapped by a white picket fence.
The wide lawns, the grand plazas, the tower, the fountain, the white buildings, all alike, with the orange tiled roofs!
An article on Saturday about mowing lawns gave the incorrect square mileage of turf grass planted in the United States.
That may sound far-fetched, but in addition to vacuuming robots can already mop our floors and mow our lawns.
I am also averse to obviously faked photos, with fires pasted into fireplaces and lawns the color of Sprite bottles.
They started an online fund-raiser and posted fliers asking area residents to consider turning their lawns into small farms.
We walked past broad lawns and wide lakes fringed with forest, all heavily manicured and completely bereft of bird life.
In the country's west and southwest, officials asked residents to refrain from washing cars, watering lawns and filling swimming pools.
But it's still business as usual at Futenma, where squat buildings and well-kept lawns call to mind postwar suburbia.
Here are the best sprinklers in 2020:Best sprinkler for large lawns: Nelson 1865 RainTrain Traveling SprinklerBest sprinkler for small lawns: Melnor XT Turbo Metal Oscillating Sprinkler with Flow ControlBest shelf sprinkler for flowers and vegetables: Gardena 1951 Spike Sprinkler Best soaker hose: Gilmour Flat Soaker HoseBest budget sprinkler: Melnor XT 4000 Oscillating Sprinkler
Neatly mown lawns lead the way to a corral for hundreds of the curly-horned Murrah buffalo typical of the region.
A drop spreader, which will drop grass seed directly onto the lawn beneath the spreader, is typically recommended for small lawns.
Soon enough, it seems, her dispatches from the world outside their tidy front lawns have their whole town in an uproar.
"He started mowing lawns at 13 and saving money because he wanted to own his own business very young," she said.
Ron DeSantis signed SB 82 that states local governments can't ban homeowners from growing fruits and vegetables in their own lawns.
Baseball fields already prune their lawns to perfection by brushing the blades in different directions to create a gradient, striped effect.
The Western Cape has some of the largest campuses in the southern hemisphere, with cricket pitches as smooth as croquet lawns.
Hours after the crash, neighbors were still standing on front lawns and under tents that were set up by emergency workers.
But those perfectly manicured lawns and cheery neighborhood greetings are ultimately just a cover for the deceptions and evils hiding within.
As a counter-example it cites Madison Station Elementary, which boasts pristine lawns, tennis and basketball courts, and a pretty pond.
The main difference is that the hotel is staffed entirely by robots, and murderous bears are traipsing about the manicured lawns.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN)On one side of Milwaukee's Sherman Park neighborhood stand grand houses with manicured lawns and tree-lined streets.
We stopped in a park with green lawns and a marble fountain and joked about the protester, laughed about the scientist.
Glass from the windows lay scattered across the front and side lawns, along with personal belongings and the house's front door.
Once-lush lawns now crunch underfoot; fields that formerly grew alfalfa, a thirsty crop, now lie fallow in the Central Valley.
It was the perfect spot, just what my daughter had hoped for—beautiful Vermont setting with expansive green lawns and gardens.
California's five-year-long drought has already had punishing effects—stronger fires, dying Redwoods and lots and lots of brown lawns.
It is far too common to see plastic puddles lying on lawns, turning attempted decorations into the opposite of a decoration.
He told the Times that he has gotten up to 20 calls a week to mow lawns — up from about five.
Soon afterwards he began mowing neighbours' lawns to support his family, and then went down the mines himself several years later.
Most of the 30 million small businesses in this country sell pizzas, fix cars, repair roofs, balance books and mow lawns.
During this "50 States 50 Lawns" trip, Smith is encouraging kids he meets along the way to take up the challenge.
The sprawling lawns and views of the mountains can also be admired from the balcony or terrace of the main residence.
The official welcome ceremony took place on the lawns of Government House - the residence of the Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy.
OUTDOOR SPACE: Most of the property is rolling hills and woods, with a brook, a half-acre pond, gardens and lawns.
In spite of the haze of booze in the air, and the beer-spongy lawns, the school had never looked grander.
"If you are in England or on the East Coast, then fine—have as many lawns as you want," Adams says.
LONDON (Reuters) - Slowly but surely Andy Murray is scratching his name alongside the all-time grasscourt greats on Wimbledon's hallowed lawns.
Existing suburbs were developed to maximize house and lot sizes, and some are often locked into aesthetic compliance, like mowed lawns.
"They are tossing them on lawns so we believe the cat litter is just used for weight," the sheriff's office says.
Iolani Palace is a grand, late-19th-century Italianate compound on a 10-acre plot of manicured lawns in downtown Honolulu.
His renovation, completed in 1981, transformed the garden into the shadier, leafier version visitors experience today, replete with lawns and trees.
"You would assume the homeowners were upset that their lawns were being destroyed, but everyone was enjoying it," Mr. Parris said.
In between, we collapsed in a serene, 50-acre Hollywood Park with bright green lawns and tall trees called Wattles Garden.
Find a spot among the kite-fliers on the surrounding lawns to watch seaplanes land on the waters of Lake Union.
The dimensions of the rooms are grand, with tall ceilings and banks of windows overlooking the Hudson River and broad lawns.
His stepfather had him wheel their lawnmower around to neighbors' houses and offer to mow their lawns, which he found humiliating.
He took a job stocking shelves at a grocery store for minimum wage, and mowed lawns and moved dirt for neighbors.
Video from a news helicopter showed the animal trotting down streets and onto lawns, with a police car in slow pursuit.
One example is so-called nutrient runoff, when too many nutrients from fertilizers used on farms and lawns wash into waterways.
Search for "plantation wedding" and you'll see an endless stream of mostly white couples kissing and strolling on expansive green lawns.
New homes are being built with low-flush toilets and restrictive shower heads, and lawns have given way to desert landscaping.
Here, the embers will blow onto roofs, onto parched lawns and bushes, and begin burning thousands of buildings, block by block.
The Ku Klux Klan had visited their street in the dead of night and left neatly folded fliers on people's lawns.
He shovels snow and mows lawns as a favor for his neighbors, and helps take care of his grandchildren after school.
Many people have not left Malibu because erratic winds continue to ignite spot fires on abandoned lawns and in dry, overgrown brush.
On "Members Only," Gucci brings the trap to the manicured lawns of a country club, jogging through the premises with no shirt.
Although many of those institutions were regal on the outside, with their gothic architecture and rolling green lawns, inside was another story.
Residents said they have continued to stay because erratic winds keep sparking spot fires on abandoned lawns and in dry, overgrown brush.
Outdoor space: The house and swimming pool, which has an adjacent hot tub, are surrounded by lawns, paths and groomed garden beds.
As the skies cleared days later, landscapers emerged to mow lawns in residential areas, before houses had yet drained or flooding subsided.
Lotus-like man-made materials belong to a class known as nanograsses—so called because, under an electron microscope, they resemble lawns.
The bits of Cobb and two neighbouring counties of which it is comprised are replete with smart housing developments and pristine lawns.
You're not going to use it to become the next Banksy, turning lawns around your neighborhood into thought-provoking works of art.
Water had accumulated on lawns and roadsides -- in some cases calm enough for ducks to wade across -- but streets were still passable.
While Americans still wrangle their overgrown lawns by pushing or riding a lawnmower, many Europeans have handed off that responsibility to robots.
Mark was planning to save the money to buy a mower for his second job mowing lawns, his father told Fox 46.
They intend to start in southern states, where they already know the landscape, so to speak, and lawns are nice and big.
To supplement his income, Sall cultivated as many side gigs as he could manage, including mowing lawns, writing articles and flipping cars.
"Just standing outside on their lawns, people are having conversations about the coast and why we need to be protected," she said.
That still holds true today — when even the outfits draw attention — on Day 3 of the 2016 tournament, on those tidy lawns.
They had big lawns on Cape Cod, and plenty of wealthy people, so I always had a lot of work to do.
Stroh came of age among the manicured lawns and stately manors of Grosse Pointe, the most emblematic of old-­money Midwestern suburbs.
Today the villa is surrounded by neighbors, but still retains a feeling of isolation thanks to its private lawns, gardens and terraces.
And the people frolicking on its lawns aren't ballet dancers, but rather Ms. Swift's famous friends from the music and fashion worlds.
With the drought showing no sign of abating, state authorities said residents can only water their lawns and gardens between 10 a.m.
We first rode through the landscape just outside of Toronto, which proved to be filled with vast green lawns and rural homes.
On the lawns of vacant houses, only small patches of grass remain, but they're littered with plastic cups and scraps of paper.
Individuals in white coats and suits walk around the well-kept lawns as staff from the GSSTI drive me around the complex.
Elegant palm trees hang over the symmetrical lawns of the peachy homes lining Chesapeake Lane in the Orangecrest neighborhood of Riverside, California.
Yet, I look at my neighbors, the ones with the well-manicured late autumn lawns, and can't help but feel lawn lust.
Outdoor green spaces include Teardrop Park, whose rocky walls recall the Catskills, and Rockefeller Park, whose wide-open lawns offer Hudson views.
In the rear of the house, two small lawns overlook the ocean, and several flights of stairs lead down to the beach.
According to the brochure in our patient intake folders, the hospital's scenic grounds boasted rolling lawns, open meadows, forests and a gazebo.
The walk home is a safe space for meandering chatter, nude runs through car-parks and cross-legged silences on bowling lawns.
Lining a path along its lush lawns were scores of brown cardboard boxes; rolls of Bubble Wrap were unfurled on the grass.
The "for sale" signs sticking in the front lawns of the neighbors' empty houses led me straight to the street's dead end.
Urban Paris falls away in the Jardin des Plantes, a venerable reserve of lawns, tall trees, flower beds and stately old buildings.
In the unincorporated Salisbury section, near the 930-acre Eisenhower Park, there are updated 1950s Capes, colonials and split-levels with lawns.
"They see this $36 billion endowment and the manicured lawns and they impute that onto all colleges and universities," Mr. Antony said.
"Mike Dukakis can't get a job mowing lawns," Mr. Romney said in "Mitt," the 2014 Netflix documentary about his two presidential campaigns.
In other words, add just a path and some benches, with the lawns fenced off for security and to keep costs down.
What if, instead of seeing lawns primarily as decorative, the more uniform and manicured the better, we saw them as living ground?
Glyphosate products are used on farms, industrial areas, public parks, residential lawns and gardens, and aquatic systems for agricultural and forestry purposes.
And yes, suddenly I was passing cars with Trump stickers on their bumpers, and passing houses with Trump flags on their lawns.
Standing in the middle of the street last night we watched the moonlit lawns and a neighbor strikehis son in the face.
Tests later showed that the ash, which looked like dirty clumps of cotton candy scattered across rooftops and lawns, contained toxic chemicals.
Far from the manicured lawns and Hollywood scandals of LA's west side, undertones of loss threatened Chicano livelihood and permeated their neighborhoods.
It is also stepping up conservation - including paying residents $3 per square foot to shrink or get rid of water-demanding green lawns.
School children were weeding and grooming lawns, while a number of building facades in downtown Pyongyang were being repaired or repainted, he said.
For some species, scientists say, cities can be more hospitable than rural and suburban areas, because fewer lawns and farms mean fewer pesticides.
"Women are considered goddesses in our household," he added, standing in the Supreme Court's lush lawns, just a few yards away from Rajawat.
What if you were looking for houses in the middle of fields, or cul de sacs, or dead lawns, or circular parking lots?
My duties included mowing lawns, scrubbing floors, cleaning ovens, painting walls, and whatever else it took to get those rental houses in shape.
The Tuesday garden party is the third society party that the Queen has hosted on the back lawns of Buckingham Palace this season.
After all, the Terra is far from the first product to attempt to do for lawns what the Roomba has done for floors.
Even though "there are certainly more ticks in the woods than there are in the lawn," people spend more time on their lawns.
On the other hand, Teachout outperformed Clinton in all but two counties; on some lawns, you could find both Teachout and Trump signs.
The 34-year-old Muller won the grasscourt title in Den Bosch on Sunday and has continued that form on the London lawns.
The grounds include manicured gardens, lawns with olive trees and wild areas where spruces, palms or weeping willows encroach on white pebble paths.
The six-bedroom, five-bathroom estate includes a private tennis court, a guest house, and 1.1 acres of impeccably-manicured gardens and lawns.
Some 22017 acres of ridges, paths, slides and lawns will rise seven stories over the harbor, providing panoramic views of New York City.
One lush public space with fountains, lawns and benches can be glimpsed behind a metal fence with a gate on East 70th Street.
And some, such as in Beverly Hills, with its estates surrounded by sweeps of lawns and gardens, resisted at first, but eventually complied.
Total employed in the US: 1,560What they do, according to O*NET: Landscaping and groundskeeping workers take care of lawns, plants, and trees.
A conservative artist is making headlines in New York for a 20-foot-tall pro-Trump installation on one of his client's lawns.
Total employed in the US: 1,470What they do, according to O*NET: Landscaping and groundskeeping workers take care of lawns, plants, and trees.
Next summer, he hopes to start a "7 Continents 7 lawns" campaign to continue to spread his message of service around the world.
The house needed heavy renovations, and high maintenance costs for lawns prompted the state to give it back to the family in 2013.
Pollan has been writing for The Times much longer, starting with his articles in the magazine about lawns and gardens in the 230s.
It sits next to the borough's largest park, Marine Park, which has 798 acres sweeping across salt meadows, wide lawns and remote shoreline.
In 2019, Smith plans to embark on a "seven continents - seven lawns" campaign to continue spreading his message of service around the world.
Gardens, ghostly mansions and even grenades have all emerged from Europe's parched landscape as the sun scorches the continent's lawns, fields and scrubland.
She worked as a home health aide at night and mowed lawns during the day, inching her way back to $17 an hour.
And after sweeping some sidewalks and mowing even more lawns, the teen finally came up with enough funds to afford lunch and flowers.
He said he was getting 15 to 20 calls per week to mow lawns, up from just four or five before the video.
Then there are wild turkeys, which can be aggressive and trample over yards, and feral cats that urinate on lawns, leaving foul odors.
Hammocks and baby swings hang from tree branches on front lawns near Haverford Drive, the site of the first bombing on March 2.
The Bee Lab at the University of Minnesota says these beautiful, yet untamed, lawns can resist drought and flooding better than turf grass.
Then in 1983, he returned, showing of all things, large bronze rabbits mid-leap, balanced on pedestals that were soon accessorizing collectors' lawns.
We never find any houses that we have built with graffiti on the outside walls or with broken windows or un-mowed lawns.
Start in the waterside Rinko Park, with lawns backed by towering high-rises, and try to spot fish jumping in the water offshore.
The journey is along shady streets lined with manicured lawns and leads to shell-studded sands where you can lay down a towel.
It had been cold overnight, and a hard frost had settled on the lawns and on the gravel, so the driver went slowly.
Neighborhood Watch signs in windows, porch cameras, and security signs speared into green lawns suggest an air of distrust around Berryessa's manicured edges.
"I would be back in my hometown mowing lawns right now, if not for Anna Maria football," Supan, a junior from Monroe, Conn.
We can't hold Capability Brown entirely responsible for our fixation with lawns, but he certainly rolled out acres of thirsty, finicky green velvet.
Pesticides EPA proposed increasing the allowable levels of the herbicide Atrazine, which is used by professionals to kill weeds on crops and lawns.
Then, starting in the late 1990s, visitors were encouraged to carry their own refuse out of playgrounds and heavily used lawns and meadows.
They freeze their front lawns to drive away carolers, hit one another with shovels, and shoot at each other's homes with rocket launchers.
In the following guide, we mainly focus on walk-behind mowers since the majority of lawns are served perfectly well by these machines.
The answer is really more straightforward, EDGERS, the things you use to trim the borders of lawns, hedges, garden beds and so on.
I'm also interested in the seeming prosaicness of excessive lawns and flowers outside someone's home; it's a beautiful picture, but it's also absurd.
Think of the ubiquitous pink flamingos and garden gnomes that people place on their lawns, or of Andy Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup Cans painting.
I'm not running away to the safety of mom's couch in Chattanooga to exhale into the ennui of manicured lawns and strip mall shopping.
It also bars local communities from taking action against homeowners trying to conserve water during the declared drought, such as letting lawns go brown.
After mowing neighbor's lawns and washing people's houses to earn money to go to the movies, Reynolds was limited to the selection of musicals.
Law Mower developer Scoria Studios announced Wednesday that people who mowed their lawns and posted a picture of their accomplishment on Twitter on Aug.
Minnesota is launching a program that encourages homeowners to let their lawns go to seed — all in the name of rescuing bumblebees and birds.
Dragons are kept as pets, trolls run the bridge toll booths, and garden gnomes have to take care of the lawns they're standing on.
So, guys, put out your campfires, don't toss your cigarette butts into piles of kindling, don't set your neighbors' lawns on fire, et cetera.
Its good schools and perfectly mowed lawns are set against the astoundingly beautiful backdrop of the vast mountainscape, a horizon fit for a postcard.
A pool house, studio with separate entrance, fountains, rose gardens, rolling lawns and more are situated on the estate's stunning 2.1 acres of land.
Anyone who thinks Orlando is a stucco-built town with overly watered lawns and an abundance of drive-through fast food places is right.
An avid gardener and horticulturalist, Kanodia flew in exotic plants and trees from India and festooned the grounds with rolling lawns and hanging gardens.
That vast system that once allowed vegetables, lawns, and golf courses to flourish in the desert no longer works the way it used to.
Can he follow in the footsteps of his great-great-grandfather and one day compete on the manicured lawns of the All England Club?
Adam Twidell, CEO of PrivateFly, said some airports in the area will have to park jets on the taxiways and lawns to make space.
For that matter, even the White House may eventually turn to automated equipment such as driverless lawn mowers to cut its massive property lawns.
The signs in support of the N.Y.P.D. that appeared on front lawns were paper soldiers armed to battle the opposition that had spread nationwide.
Officials said they were hopeful that reduction would prove permanent because of changes in water use such as replacing lawns with drought-tolerant shrubs.
The firm advertises its properties on its website, through Craigslist and in handwritten signs posted on the lawns of properties promoting low monthly rents.
I was familiar with mowers from mowing lawns with my brother growing up and fixing neighborhood mowers with my father, who was a mechanic.
We live on an unkempt half-acre lot in a neighborhood where most of the lawns are pristine, and vultures are not common visitors.
Most importantly, our research found that we could successfully maintain our parks, playing fields and private lawns without the use of high-risk pesticides.
At the far end of the room, two doors opened onto a raised patio, overlooking green lawns that rolled down to a picturesque lake.
It's a big American story that rolls across barbered lawns and then leaves you stranded in some all-night Sam's Club of the soul.
Screenshot: CNNIn the dead of night this weekend, someone or something left dozens of ageing TVs on the porches and lawns of Virginia homes.
The family made the eastward trek of the ambitious — moving from Brooklyn to Woodside, Queens, and ultimately to suburban Long Island and wide lawns.
He liked to look at the big houses as he pedaled, with their lush lawns that his father and other immigrant landscapers kept immaculate.
He worked with his hands: in a produce department, at a garden center, mowing lawns, trimming hedges, and sweeping floors at his high school.
After that, everyone who tested negative was allowed to go outside and walk the lawns of the quarantine area as much as they wanted.
Banks and other mortgage holders boarded up the foreclosed properties, and often failed to mow the lawns or otherwise maintain them in good condition.
One of these women was a nursing student from small-town Texas come to a handsome Christian campus with grand lawns and overarching oaks.
"Why is the fact that he could mow lawns and play pool indicative of a strength that overcomes all the other deficits?" she asked.
Whether it's a lemonade stand, mowing lawns or even — these days — developing a new app, there are plenty of ways kids can become entrepreneurs.
In Sydney, it started long before summer with drought creeping up slowly, leaving scraps of yellow grass and dirt where lawns used to be.
While it's a fairly basic design, this mower is suitable for homeowners or renters with smaller lawns, provided there's access to a power outlet.
On one dry block, a jogger ran by in the steamy Houston heat, as neighbors collected debris that had grown tangled in their lawns.
Our turf grass lawns — including those of corporate campuses and business parks — total 40 million acres, or 60,000 square miles, the size of Georgia.
In a world of diminishing biodiversity and rapid climate change, the ground beneath our lawns is capable of so much more than just grass.
As the end of the tennis tournament nears, our reporter reflects on its charms: its sloping lawns and its signature treat, strawberries and cream.
The transformation of American roadsides from narrow flowering meadows to close-cropped lawns isn't the chief danger to troubled pollinators, but it hasn't helped.
In this case, his stance may well end up sending 50,000 acre-feet of water a year from the desert aquifer to suburban lawns.
There were willow trees, summer houses, immaculate sun-drenched lawns, water-meadows where cattle stood hock-deep in the river, dazed by the heat.
I like to walk around my Los Angeles neighborhood and wonder what drama lurks behind the pretty facades and lawns, the occasional picket fence.
The court added that the young Bobby Moore "had demonstrated adaptive strengths" by living on the street, mowing lawns, playing pool and committing crimes.
Outdoor space: The seven-acre landscaped property is next to 200 acres of protected land and has stone walls, rail fences, lawns and gardens.
In terms of specific words used, for example, "MFA novels tend to focus more on lawns, lakes, counters, stomachs, and wrists," the authors write.
WITH its nautical boutiques, trim lawns and tennis club, the seaside town of Le Touquet is the weekend refuge for the bourgeoisie of northern France.
Mair had lived in a unremarkable house in Birstall for 20 years, spent much of his time in his garden would occasionally mow neighbors' lawns.
In high desert areas of California like Victorville, thousands of tumbleweeds blew in on a particularly windy day yesterday, covering resident's lawns and backyards entirely.
Sources of these nutrients include fertilizers from agriculture, golf courses, and suburban lawns, erosion of soil packed with nutrients, and sewage discharge from treatment plants.
In France, crowds packed the lawns stretching out beneath the Eiffel Tower, frenetically waving French flags as police struggled to keep them squeezed in place.
So I was surprised as I rolled into town to find myself flanked not by derelict factories, but by large stately houses with manicured lawns.
A recent patent application details how its R23 self-driving vehicle could carry smaller robots to cross lawns or climb stairs to drop off packages.
A recent patent application details how its R1 self-driving vehicle could carry smaller robots to cross lawns or climb stairs to drop off packages.
This leaves locals stuck in a guessing game, as they try to determine whether the iguanas on their frosted lawns are dead or just hibernating.
Water restrictions are in place for many of the drought-stricken areas, forcing some to give up luxuries like green lawns or a car wash.
He says he now farms more than 1,300 square meters (a third of an acre) of various plots scattered across abandoned lawns, gardens and terraces.
"When I go back home, it's crazy, because someone is picking up all the trash on the ground and mowing all the lawns," she said.
Other social posts from incensed netizens on Weibo showed people letting their kids defecate in the bushes, and others trampling on manicured lawns for photos.
On the other, residents have spent the past few years letting their lawns die and letting cars go unwashed in the name of water conservation.
Behind those monotonous lawns lives a diverse population: one-third of the 88,000 people who live in Sunrise are black and one-quarter are Hispanic.
Syosset, a hamlet of about 20,000 people near the eastern edge of the county, has homes with mostly wide, tree-covered lawns and several schools.
Coastal real estate in America is so often depicted in images of sprawling mansions with long lawns leading down to boat slips and sandy beaches.
On the neighborhood's neatly tended front lawns, signs erected by weary residents had a simple, if frequently ignored, plea: "We must stop killing each other."
"Sunday brings a far friendlier approach via category experts, and the best customer service mindset to help consumers take care of their lawns without fear."
Jerry Brown (D) on Monday made permanent a series of rules that includes restrictions on watering lawns, washing pavement and cars, and using ornamental fountains.
After a few quiet hours as protesters slept on lawns and in the university library, police fired fresh rounds of teargas shortly after 10 a.m.
The groups covered lawns and beaches with "No to drilling" signs, but focused their attention on pushing through municipal actions that would resonate in Washington.
The same stretch of the Bronx that was on fire in the 1970s is now home to half-million-dollar ranch houses and tidy lawns.
A couple of good performances on south-west London's lush lawns would go some way towards helping the world number 67 achieve his immediate goals.
With extensive ocean views and rolling lawns, the property, in the unincorporated Chamcook local service district, is a five-minute drive from downtown St. Andrews.
Three of her life-size headless figures on plinths, sited on smaller lawns around the park, will play off just such a woman in repose.
This does not reflect well on me, but I have always associated the term "garden club" with tea roses and insecticides, pristine lawns and herbicides.
She contends that Ascend's oversize towers will cast shadows across the complex's green lawns, block views and accelerate the gentrification of the Lower East Side.
His father worked there as a plant engineer, and his uncle, who is now his business partner, had summer jobs mowing lawns as a teenager.
Northeast Philadelphia — an expansive region with strip malls and lawns that New Yorkers might recognize as a relative of Staten Island — is Pearl Huynh's territory.
Signs reading "#rescindbearsears" stretch across gas stations and front lawns, which are strategically avoided by people who have taken to wearing pro-monument T-shirts.
But I was always going around the neighborhood asking people if they had odd jobs for me to do, mowing lawns and things like that.
The CCTVs cycled through images of dirt lawns and driveways infested with overgrown kudzu—and also the cars passing by, and who was in them.
People who think of themselves as progressives, environmentalists and egalitarians fight fiercely against urban development, complaining about traffic and shadows and the sanctity of lawns.
But there was a reason she wanted to fill that silence around why some people die young and others grow old and fussy about their lawns.
We give food to wild creatures out of a desire to help them, spreading cut apples on snowy lawns for blackbirds, hanging up feeders for chickadees.
There were certainly important policy initiatives like lawn buyback programs [helping homeowners replace thirsty green lawns with drought-tolerant crops] and publicity campaigns about water use.
We'd perch up there, high above everything, hands sappy, staring out at our world: a row of low-slung houses with rose bushes and green lawns.
The house is no different than any other residence on the quiet street full of well-manicured lawns and spacious views of the Pulgas Ridge Preserve.
Government scientists believe a certain kind of pesticide called neonicotinoids—which is widely sprayed on crops, lawns and gardens—to be particularly harmful to bumble bees.
"We have a beautiful front lawn at our house in England and I used to mow lawns when I was a kid," he told ET Canada.
Mr. Cooksey said his minimal income came from work as a Salvation Army bell-ringer in the holiday season and from odd jobs like mowing lawns.
The bikes have shown up at local schools, in neighbors' lawns, at the bottom of the town creek and on the roof of O'Malley's Sports Pub.
Olive, who joined the clan in October 2118, spends most of her days either grazing on the lawns or sleeping on the couch with the dogs.
"I'd always thought Wimbledon was the toughest to win," said McEnroe, three times a champion on London's lawns, but never better than a finalist in France.
Sorry if I don't want to spend an extra $10 a month on music so that Madonna and friends can keep their Hollywood lawns unnaturally green.
"Vote Yes" signs sprouted on front lawns while an automated phone message from mayor Naheed Nenshi went out on Monday urging Calgarians to support the bid.
But the delay does give an opening for organizers, who will be able to protest on lawmakers' front lawns when they return home for the recess.
Some were cute little semi-detached old-school style places, with terrier statuettes in the windows and lawns sheared as cleanly as an army cadet's hair.
Under the governor's executive order, emergency drought regulations, like bans on hosing down driveways or watering lawns within 48 hours of a rainstorm, will remain indefinitely.
Outside, the residence has a motor court, rolling lawns, a pool and an oversized spa, as well as a fire pit and two wood-burning fireplaces.
Coachella, the greatest of the great lawns, has grown into a coveted pilgrimage and routinely sells huge numbers of tickets before the bill is even announced.
Workers have to hustle to keep up lawns and flower beds that were redone just a few years ago and empty trash cans before they overflow.
Christopher told KPIX that the rabbits are just everywhere in the neighborhood — hopping in the streets, hiding under cars, and eating the plants in residential lawns.
Those started with more efficient appliances and toilets, and now include paying families $3 per square foot to shrink their lawns, said Harasick, of the LADWP.
A different kind of grass keeps the 18-year-old occupied these days: with three other young offenders he mows lawns for the people of Liverpool.
Looping, interior roads and winding pathways weave around playgrounds, basketball courts and look-alike buildings fringed by lawns, London plane trees, dogwoods, magnolias, boxwoods and hydrangeas.
I opened my first savings account in middle school and socked away money I made from selling handmade macrame jewelry and cutting lawns in my town.
What was surprising was that the feat was achieved on Wimbledon's rather threadbare lawns as the Ukrainian's game is more suited to the sport's slower surfaces.
That's because the only type of work they can do at this age is freelance type work, such as babysitting, tutoring, shoveling snow, and mowing lawns.
The suburban neighborhood's manicured lawns served as a stark contrast from the broken sidewalks of the Pastorius and Baynton Streets that his stage name derives from.
According to a 2012 report from Vice, many Mormon communities appear extraordinarily rich to drug gangs, because of their large houses, manicured lawns, and golf courses.Sen.
Half was used to generate electricity, one-third for irrigation, and roughly one-tenth for household use: flushing toilets, washing clothes and dishes, and watering lawns.
Still, the route alone would not fully explain his utter dominance of the pastures, lawns and embankments that formed the margins of my field of vision.
And there is no shortage of outdoor spaces, like lawns, baseball diamonds and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, which has long, tree-lined promenades.
He said Ali was a beloved, albeit quiet presence in the community, helping elderly people throw out their garbage or clean up trash from their lawns.
I was back and forth from the group home in upstate New York, and I would do people's lawns, clean out their garages, babysit, really anything.
It has been renovated and refurbished, renewing the lawns and meadows envisioned by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who designed it in the 19th century.
In Denmark, Sune Boye Riis's transect with his car net took him past a bit of woods, some suburban lawns, some hedges, a Christmas-tree farm.
On a recent summer day in the Stapleton neighborhood, the air hung still above front porches, and tiny lawns shone improbably green in the desert heat.
In several areas of the neighboring Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Department, local authorities prohibited irrigating land, watering lawns or filling up swimming pools between 11 a.m.
Agriculture Late last year, the EPA proposed increasing the allowable levels of the herbicide Atrazine, which is used commercially to kill weeds on crops and lawns.
Trasande also said households should avoid spraying pesticides on their lawns or backyards and recommended switching to organic foods (though organic produce can also contain pesticides).
You can find slime molds all over the place, but they tend to be found in soil, lawns, and on the remains of fallen deciduous trees.
Numerous sources exist to help property owners looking to transform their lawns, even if that means simply a small patch in an otherwise unused backyard corner.
"Just because you are a productive member of society, working hard, mowing lawns, that should not be the reason to give you that gold," he said.
Woodfox mentioned a few things that he appreciated about the neighborhood—most of the lawns were mowed—but he admitted that none of that really mattered.
He still smells of the freshly cut grass from the swanky side of town, where he had just mowed lawns to make a few extra dollars.
Business is looking up for a boy's lawn care enterprise in Falls Church, Va. Frank, 11, has a business mowing lawns for several of his neighbors.
For two hours last week a bull ran through the streets of Jamaica, Queens, trotting between parked cars and across lawns after escaping from a slaughterhouse.
As a college student, Lemonis showed off his work ethic by mowing lawns and working as a club promoter in addition to focusing on his studies.
Washington has more "green cemeteries," which encourage a return to nature without manicured lawns and chemicals, than most states; only California and New York have more.
Plant native shrubs: They provide food and cover for birdsAvoid pesticides: The problem with green grass lawns is the chemicals people use to keep weeds away.
The town is identical to nearby towns: tiny and nondescript — its front lawns brown and dry, its trees bare, its pockmarked roads filled with oily puddles.
Wimbledon's low bouncing lawns also provide the ultimate test of the creaky knees that disrupted Nadal's season this year and forced him to withdraw from Miami.
The newly-renovated park - its boating lake, miniature golf course and neatly manicured lawns - was off-limits to men unaccompanied by women or children, the guard said.
At least one person was killed and another was critically injured on Sunday after an Ohio house explosion that left the street and lawns covered in debris.
There was, however, no shortage of landscapers and contractors, working hard to manicure the pristine lawns and conducting renovations — some inside, some out — on the exquisite homes.
Outside, he could wander over lawns to the manor house, or a lake where swans glided, or visit the small building that served as his wine cellar.
In the sleepy planned community of Shaker Heights, Ohio, people live an ordered life amid manicured lawns, picture-perfect high school romances, and Ivy League acceptance letters.
It wasn't developed until 1923, when builders started constructing a community of upscale, single-family homes around the rolling green lawns of the California Country Club Estates.
At least, that's how it probably feels in one Boise neighborhood where dozens of goats were found just kinda roaming and feeding on the well-manicured lawns.
Puckish, tiny men with impressive beards now dot American lawns, with poses ranging from elite golfers mid-swing to hooligans showing their bare bottoms to passers-by.
It has its own waterfall and lake, where ducks have taken up residence, and there are tree-shaded lawns where one can picnic on sunny summer days.
Bad Moms opens with a bird-eye view of rows of suburban houses, each with perfectly-mowed lawns, and walls so fresh the paint seems almost wet.
But Allenby says the floods are getting worse, as development covers what used to be the "natural sponge of a forest" with paved surfaces, rooftops, and lawns.
Outside the ballroom's huge windows, the rolling lawns ringing the conference center glint with a fresh half-inch of snow—the first for Northeast Ohio this fall.
Lawns in Routt are dotted with signs that read coal keeps the lights on, and many residents feel that the county should have accepted Peabody's tax payment.
This sort of impatience is perhaps understandable after four days in which many people have been forced to live on their lawns, because their homes are unstable.
He's 66 years old now, living in Los Angeles with his wife, Millie, in an upstairs apartment in a nice neighborhood with lawns and small palm trees.
Clinton, many Democrats might be justifiably concerned about property damage or other forms of retributive tactics if they posted signs in her favor on their front lawns.
The mansion, nicknamed the "White House of Englewood," sits on more than 5 acres of private property, which includes manicured lawns, orchards, gardens, and a small lake.
A river runs from higher ground, spanned by a fig tree root bridge that links pathways between tidy lawns, vegetable and flower gardens, and clusters of houses.
How she broke free is unknown, but as most dogs do on the loose, she wandered, leashless and alone, trespassing on lawns that were not her own.
A horde of wild turkeys is wreaking havoc on a small Oregon town, ruining gardens, swarming lawns, and dropping vile, odorous bird shit all over the place.
Baby boomers turned multi-story houses with sprawling lawns into a sign of economic prosperity, but their children may be driving the downfall of this status symbol.
House-by-house changes - replacing water-thirsty lawns, purchasing new water-efficient fixtures and appliances, or installing green storm water infrastructure – can actually make a huge difference.
Californians tore out lawns, cut back landscape watering and took shorter showers as they embraced Mr. Brown's call to accommodate what he warned were permanently drier times.
We've since moved across the county line, but driving through most communities in our area still means seeing large blue Trump campaign signs on perfectly manicured lawns.
Once part of a 1,300-acre cotton plantation, the building is surrounded by more than two acres of lawns and gardens, near an 18-hole golf course.
The dense, bare, grass-green carpet on which Anna Ziegler's "Actually" is staged establishes perfectly the Princeton University setting, with its air of privilege and legacy lawns.
Initially, most homes were on septic tanks, and 1970s homeowners became obsessed with keeping their lawns green with artificial, fast-acting fertilizer full of nitrogen and phosphorus.
It was a far different scene a few days back, when neighbors called the cops on Chris for doing doughnuts on the street and a few lawns.
Outdoor space: Two gardens are planted with shrubs, palms and large specimen trees, including a prominent oak; they have lawns, elegant paving and vine-covered brick walls.
Now, with spruced-up lawns and restored fountains, the sloping green space is much safer, and she can be found strolling the paths several times a week.
In regions where water is scarce, lawns are environmentally irresponsible, to say nothing of the chemicals that homeowners dump on them to keep them golf-course perfect.
For fun, I want to play Special Olympics basketball, go to our cabin in Vermont and the shore in New Jersey, mow lawns, and collect business cards.
There are stone walls and manicured lawns near the house with wild fields and forest beyond, as well as a patio along the back of the house.
MOGO, Australia — The lawns were always green in Mogo, a former gold-mining town in southeastern Australia where water from natural springs bubbled just beneath the surface.
Residents still have to pay a portion of their water bills, estimated to cover non-dangerous water uses like flushing toilets, washing clothes or watering lawns. Gov.
It's a vision we were taught; for decades, developers actually provided brochures to new suburban homeowners detailing how to make their lawns look like golf course greens.
We made three stops on the way to Cape Town, our favorite being St. Lucia, a well-kempt town sporting carpets of crab grass for front lawns.
When we first met a promising young man named Rosendo, he was a teenager mowing lawns to earn a living with dreams of becoming an aviation mechanic.
The resort is a popular spot for weddings, and features two chapels, two ballrooms and multiple "lawns" overlooking the May River, perfect for hosting a scenic reception.
Social media videos have also drawn attention to people calling police to report black Americans doing ordinary activities such as mowing lawns and swimming in community pools.
Years ago, there were a lot of young people trying to go out [where I live] and mow lawns to make money to pay for their drugs.
On July 23, Maren Hassinger, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Museum, will scatter bits of white trash that she painted pink onto the lawns of Prospect Park.
FOR as long as anybody could remember, the French president had given his annual Bastille Day address in front of the sweeping lawns of the Elysée Palace garden.
Water officials blamed warmer weather in January for urban users' slipping in conservation efforts, which have included cutting back on watering lawns and stricter enforcement for wasteful users.
They're standing smack in the middle of the street in a wealthy suburb of Des Moines, where heavy gates enclose immense mansions set on sprawling, snow-covered lawns.
Outside, on the lawns in front of Parliament, hundreds of yellow-clad Falun Gong members - a religious group that says it is repressed in China - held a protest.
But, it's difficult to frown upon someone paying for financial advice while we simultaneously pay for people to cook for us, clean for us and mow our lawns.
Today, in 2017, we are instead seeing a cowardly parade of hatred, bigotry, racism, and intolerance march down the lawns of the architect of our Bill of Rights.
Five days of rain has wrought havoc with the schedule throughout the week, forcing most of the matches to be played on indoor hardcourts rather than the lawns.
Chauncy, who will soon start his sophomore year in high school, received a job offer from Hamilton's Lawn Care in Memphis to mow lawns three days a week.
The royal parents-to-be attended a traditional welcome ceremony on the lawns of Government House, the residence of the Governor General of New Zealand, Dame Patsy Reddy.
The block of stone ranch houses with manicured lawns is home to several black families, and he believes race could have been a motivating factor in the attacks.
Small groups of tourists on a recent weekend braved muddy footpaths through overgrown lawns to chase foggy photographs and answers to the question: What happened to the village?
The sight of a black man on Wimbledon's manicured lawns, French Open clay and Australian and U.S. Open hardcourts was once as jarring as it is now routine.
Now its swimming pool was empty and cracked, and when the first members of the film crew had arrived two months before, the lawns were overgrown with weeds.
This is so unlike XCOM, where your only relationship with your patrons is a mandate to keep them safe by killing aliens who land on their front lawns.
The sweep of vineyards and olive groves is breathtaking, as is the view of the villa, a white stuccoed pile topped with two towers set in geometric lawns.
Examples include dairy and egg farmers in Iowa using solar power on their farms and Florida residents using their front lawns as gardens to reduce food transport emissions.
No, Nuro's founders have some grand ideas, from automated kitchens and autonomous latte delivery to smaller robots that can cross lawns or climb stairs to drop off packages.
Minnesota lawmakers have greenlighted a new program to pay homeowners in the state to transform their lawns into bee gardens in efforts to counter the declining bee population.
She was looking to become the oldest woman to win a grand slam in the professional era and the most senior to triumph on Wimbledon's lawns since 1908.
It's an affluent area, home to judges, bishops, and lawyers, who live in stately houses with wide, prim lawns—there's even a boxy Frank Lloyd Wright-designed number.
And in New York City parks, seemingly carefree acts—like walking over newly seeded lawns, or even climbing a tree—will no longer be criminal offenses at all.
As the books progress the stakes become more dangerous and the two are taken into worlds beyond the chain-link fences and dried-out lawns of the neighborhood.
Garish luxury apartment buildings, mansions, and Ferrari dealerships festoon the hills, interspersed with Hearst-like estates whose verdant lawns look wholly out of place amid the surrounding desert.
In fair weather, the kayak launches, picnic lawns and cafes bustle, but even in the off-season, the walkway offers good perspectives on the surrounding landmark high-rises.
Today the sprawling compound spans over 120 acres of manicured lawns, stately temple buildings, and educational facilities open to visitors interested in the practice of zazen, seated meditation.
There, half a million visitors have started gathering this week for Tulip Time, where nearly five million tulips have been peppering lawns and parks in this small town.
The area could get the same treatment as the north side of the park, which is a network of winding paths through gated lawns under pretty, old trees.
Residents in Christiansburg, Virginia had a birthday present and Tylenol dropped on their lawns via drone this afternoon, the first deliveries of their kind in the United States.
At the height of the emergency, many homeowners replaced lawns with drought-resistant gardens, often with the help of subsidies from water agencies in cities like Los Angeles.
To help keep up with the overflowing cans, rear-loading garbage trucks lumbered back and forth like dinosaurs across lawns and meadows, hills and valleys, paths and walkways.
"You might as well have AstroTurf when it comes to the value of lawns to birds and butterflies," said David Mizejewski, a naturalist at the National Wildlife Federation.
Last month, California regulators recommended tighter oversight of agricultural irrigation and a permanent ban on over-watering urban lawns as first steps toward developing a long-term conservation plan.
A classic first-strike player, the 29-year-old is capable of overwhelming anyone on her day, especially on the Wimbledon lawns where she has twice claimed the title.
Well-kempt American lawns have long been a suburban status symbol, and a gorgeously maintained yard used to be the perfect way to make your neighbors green with envy.
The judge's decision is important for Monsanto because glyphosate is widely used by farmers, who apply it to genetically engineered crops, and consumers, who spray it on their lawns.
This has a lot to do with our shared environments, Thamm explains -- we breathe the same air, drink the same water, run on lawns sprayed with the same chemicals.
With help from T Rowley Lawns LLC, the rescuers were able to reach Fluffy, carefully pull her out of her precarious position and bring her back down to land.
On May 9, Brown ordered water regulators to extend some drought protections, such as a prohibition on irrigating lawns and landscape so intensely that water runs down the sidewalk.
This green reminds me of my childhood, when the lawns weren't just holograms on soccer fields, but a real sweep of green strings, aligned like an enormous obedient crowd.
After a few odd jobs in school, ranging from mowing lawns to being a club promoter in college, he got into the automobile industry and then the RV business.
World number 63 Ozaki had been two breaks ahead in the third set and was serving at 5-4 when darkness descended on the Santa Ponsa lawns on Tuesday.
The streets are lined with trees, the grassy lawns are well maintained, and the homes — which in 2016 had a median price of $809,19903 — attract young professionals with families.
The expansive property, complete with manicured gardens and rolling lawns, sits on over 1,000 feet of Mecox Bay, an unimpeded view of which residents can enjoy from the house.
He picks up little touches from the previous film, like crabs using their pinchers to mow their underwater lawns, or Dory's habit of talking dream-nonsense in her sleep.
As drones fly through the sky and land on lawns, rooftops and more, cities will be the critical connector that brings together this future we are all flying toward.
Hurricane Sandy had done its damage; the beachfront was covered in rubble, trees and lawns had died from saltwater exposure, and many homes were being repaired or torn down.
During 2015, the Metropolitan Water District (MWD), which serves most of Los Angeles, offered $340 million in rebates to customers who pledged to replace lawns with drought-tolerant landscaping.
On the park's lawns, three torsos, headless and legless, all titled "Synonym" (2017–2018), melt off of and into their bases, as if the sun had grown too hot.
The city redeveloped the eyesore into an oasis of play areas, lawns, running tracks, a halfpipe and even a dance floor, while incorporating vestiges of the old rail yards.
These tidal floods are often just a foot or two deep, but they can stop traffic, swamp basements, damage cars, kill lawns and forests, and poison wells with salt.
Outside, there will be a terrace, with lawns, planters and a farmhouse-style table, and a panorama that sweeps from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to the Statue of Liberty.
LCU opens with shots of dead lawns and boarded-up buildings, and journalist Drew Jubera talks about the first time he drove across the railroad tracks into Scooba, Mississippi.
Danny's home is a rarity, an echo of the once-thriving middle class now all but gone from the region, their well-maintained lawns speared by "For Sale" signs.
Discarded plastic bottles lie along the tree-lined velvet lawns of Nairobi's diplomatic district, and choke the stinking river that uncoils through the smog of the high-rises downtown.
There are pawnshops just steps away from old stone churches, and fast-food restaurants down the street from majestic lawns shaded by the giant canopies of tropical rain trees.
The 10,000-square-foot house sits behind iron gates and a stucco-and-brick arched entryway, on nearly an acre of terraced lawns and tropical gardens with lush vegetation.
And before we start chopping down forests and putting in lawns, it is important to note that the study focused on soils, not on what may be growing above.
Instead, I found myself driving past suburban cul-de-sacs, lined with tidy houses, lawns and miniature palm trees, until I reached a small bungalow overlooking a forested canyon.
Rascoe says he's retired but spends time working with kids to teach them how to start a small business mowing lawns in order to save money and get ahead.
At first, the camera shows us a picture-postcard view of Oxford, the famous English university city, from above: spires, towers, trees and lawns, golden in the morning sun.
On church lawns and in downtown parks, baby Jesus is back in his manger, but often with a security camera rolling and a tether securing him to the ground.
In the building's public spaces, where visitors gather, and in nook-like offices reserved for visiting scholars, there are windows onto the world, or at least onto manicured lawns.
Swezey's film illustrates the eclecticism of his early '80s Southern California scene: the trilling art punks Suburban Lawns, the guitar-less Screamers, the savage performance art of Johanna Went.
There were these block parties that — people would pick up trash and keep the neighborhoods clean with these tended, pretty little garden plots and front porches and front lawns.
We would play on the paths and sit on the lawns of the graceful campus, admire the Stanford White buildings and end up at the colonnaded Hall of Fame.
He has focused on the Syngenta product atrazine — the second most popular weed killer in America, widely used on lawns and crops — often co-authoring research with Syngenta scientists.
The base of "Ville Fantôme" epitomizes Kingelez's enthusiasm for beautifying his models and cities with painted lawns, gardens, pathways and roads; they seem to sit on richly patterned carpets.
Whereas my dog, Georgia, used to make do with walks around the block, now she gets to run through the woods, sniff neighbors' lawns, and snooze in our backyard.
The grounds, with lush lawns and extensive plantings, include 275 feet of frontage facing the Sound, a heated pool, a private beach and a 640-square-foot deepwater dock.
At the Shenzhen Real Estate Expo, marketing brochures included computer-generated images of faraway places with clear blue skies, perfectly manicured lawns, white sand beaches and alluring tourist attractions.
And it's the same excitement he felt as a kid, after saving up his money from mowing lawns and shoveling driveways to buy his first pair of Air Jordan's.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He had to appear in proximity to the Confederate monuments that dot courthouse lawns and Civil War battlefields across Virginia without raising a whisper.
In a recent interview, I talked to von Gal about the magic of clover, water-logged lawns, and the risk of relying on simplistic chemophobia to achieve noble ends.
Brazil has received her well and her husband found work doing odd jobs, painting and mowing lawns, Lopez said, as she fed her baby milk with a large syringe.
" What It's Like Now Meg Myers — played 2016: "I had been told so much about Coachella: hot weather, beautiful lawns, a lot of hipsters backstage, a lot of great bands.
LONDON (Reuters) - Wimbledon's head groundsman Neil Stubley spends most of his waking hours worrying about the 18 championship lawns under his command in the weeks leading up to the tournament.
Fortunately, there's actually already a pretty good solution to that problem, and one that does not require 75 goats to achieve: Don't care for lawns, just get rid of them.
As Gusto CEO Joshua Reeves explained it to me, a kid mowing lawns in a neighborhood has a much more visceral connection to income than the modern knowledge economy worker.
Some of the best habitats for psilocybin mushrooms now are at college campuses, the lawns in front of police stations where people are getting rid of stuff, they're human habitats.
The state-owned "model graveyard", with its wide footpaths and neatly trimmed lawns, will serve the 11m-strong population of Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's richest and most populous province.
Listening to get-money hip-hop to psyche themselves up, the crew invades posh suburbs like an alien force, dazzled by the manicured lawns, backyard pools, and seemingly happy people.
The city is a picturesque outpost, with red-rock desert framing bright green lawns and golf courses, all built around the stark white Mormon temple in the center of town.
Back in September, a rogue jogger nicknamed the "Mad Pooper" descended on Colorado Springs and took dumps on people's lawns, ticking off the local residents and prompting a police investigation.
Other big names hoping to stretch their limbs on the lush lawns of Devonshire Park include women's world number one Angelique Kerber, and French players Richard Gasquet and Gael Monfils.
I briefly abandon my feeble attempts at actual work and stare into the distance, noting the depth and texture of the forest compared to Pokémon Go's endless digital suburban lawns.
Alex said his first breakthrough was buying a collection of 50 Apple computers — enough to fill a 26-foot-long U-Haul — with $2,000 he had saved from mowing lawns.
The volunteers mowed lawns and delivered food; they drove family members to the medical examiner's office and helped them navigate the tangle of bureaucracy and paperwork to receive survivor's benefits.
Set in Michigan, the film follows teenage criminals as they choose their next victim: a reclusive, white-haired blind man whose house is surrounded by empty homes with overgrown lawns.
That's where, in 220, Vuitton bought Les Fontaines Parfumees, a terra-cotta hued 17th-century perfumery surrounded by lush lawns, fountains and more than 350 species of flowers and plants.
Set in lawns under parasol pines and towering cypresses, from the front it appears as a stately, Florentine-style mansion, while at the rear, Palladian columns add an improbable grandeur.
The only reason newspaper content has been exclusively article-based the last 100 years is because delivering tape recorders on subscriber's lawns every morning wasn't a cost effective distribution strategy.
There tens of thousands gather, some workers, some leisured, in small vans and large, parked snugly, not set apart by green lawns as they might be in a suburban tract.
Many lush lawns here are being ripped out and replaced by native plants that cast a hue of tan across the community, rather than anything that could be called emerald.
It's considered a nuisance or a weed when it pops up in luscious suburban lawns, long the bane of gardeners and homeowners sodding, sprinkling and nurturing the greenest of grasses.
Today Microsoft's Redmond campus has most of the trappings found at the sprawling headquarters of tech giants in Silicon Valley — the soccer fields, manicured lawns and oceans of parking lots.
If sea levels rise just two feet, the estate's western lawns would completely flood, according to The AP. South Florida roads also already flood periodically during storms or high tides.
The yellow house that was Robert's for many years will not only be open this season, but also make use of its lawns and gardens for dining and outdoor activities.
Fitting that the sport is pronounced "botch-ee," because whenever I tried to play as a teen, on back lawns at picnics with once-a-year kin, I botched it.
Hunter Wart, 19, spent more than a year mowing lawns and scrapping metal to raise the $10,000 needed to purchase a Safe Haven Baby Box for the Seymour Fire Department.
Fannie Mae-owned homes in majority-black areas had clearly been neglected, with debris strewn across the properties, weeds on the lawns and windows left wide open or boarded up.
Toilets in trailers are linked to white plastic pipes that snake just under (or on) the surface of lawns and empty into the woods beyond the line of mowed grass.
OUTDOOR SPACE The 10.75-acre property has stone walls and walkways, large lawns and extensive gardens planted with day lilies and lavender, as well as a vegetable and fruit garden.
Like many an American teenager, I had a monopoly on mowing my neighborhood's lawns, coming home most summer days with inch-long clippings clinging to socks and grass-stained shoes.
Even though, being in New York, we couldn't understand why the brothers in L.A. were so pissed off — they had houses with lawns, and we were living in brick cities.
To preserve the lawns at the storied All England Club for the main fortnight of play, the qualifying rounds are relegated to the Bank of England Sports Ground in Roehampton.
Squat and basic housing complexes sit just miles from more luxurious homes with grass lawns — a rarity in a community where yards of rock and of desert are the norm.
It's the post-World War II wasteland with the identical homes, lawns and faces that has been grist for critique and caricature, novels and movies, ever since suburbs were invented.
Earlier this year the police discovered the dismembered remains of seven men buried in planters at a home whose gardens and lawns had been maintained by the landscaper, Bruce McArthur.
And reduce your exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals such as phthalates (in plastics and cosmetics), flame retardants (in furniture), and pesticides (on lawns and in fruits and vegetables), Swan says.
Residents received rows of sterile white public housing on an isolated field of asphalt — a far cry from the multistory homes surrounded by lawns and lush greenery they once enjoyed.
But soon, it will be transformed into a public park filled with lawns, walkways and even redwood trees, in the first stage of one of Philadelphia's biggest real estate projects.
All across the United States, civilians will light up Christmas, stockings will be hung, and the front lawns of countless homes are brightened up by some truly impressive Christmas lights.
MIAMI — Twenty years ago, freshly graduated from college, Will Packer loaded 350 newspapers into his Honda Civic every day at dawn and drove around Atlanta, tossing them onto lawns and driveways.
Those losses in Wawarsing, New York, are far smaller, but they did contribute to a local plague of flooded basements and sodden lawns that resulted in the government buying some homes.
"Stop Bevin, Elect Beshear," read the signs erected on the well-manicured lawns of the state's largest city, where the size of Mr. Beshear's margin is crucial to his overall prospects.
Rolling lawns featuring lush gardens, a fountain and a stunning pool occupy the outdoor areas while inside, the modern kitchen, plush billiards room and master bedroom make for a cozy retreat.
There is no doubt that First Amendment alarm bells would ring if California were to require anti-abortion activists to hammer "my body, my choice" signs into their own front lawns.
Temporary requirements such as bans on over-watering lawns, hosing down sidewalks and washing cars with hoses that do not have a shut-off valve would become permanent under the plan.
Between well tended lawns and street lamps shaped like the popular Hershey's Kisses Chocolate, Hershey is dotted with landmarks from a theater to a cemetery that are tied to the confectioner.
Lawns, parks and hillsides that had been left to go brown during the drought (state-wide emergency measures have required cities to cut water usage by 25%) have turned green again.
Other activities contribute to algal blooms too – like fertilizer-doused lawns and leaky septic systems in urban areas – but by far it is agriculture that has the biggest land use footprint.
The New York-based multimedia artist traveled to the Solo Cup-covered enclave of USC's so-called fraternity row, and threw her party-dressed body onto the lawns of frat houses.
And while much of the ground in and around the city is blackened and charred, some homeowners in the least-affected parts of town were beating down overgrown lawns on Wednesday.
Vox writer Matthew Yglesias made the argument that "parks are better than lawns" when debating raising kids in the suburbs, but a city must first put effort into developing these areas.
According to the neighbor, Paul and Boucher, who share a property line in a gated community, have a long-running dispute over grass clippings and leaves blown onto each others' lawns.
LONDON (Reuters) - Rafael Nadal needs no reminder of the dangers posed by left-handers from Luxembourg — after all his first taste of defeat on Wimbledon's lawns was against one such player.
Webber first started mowing lawns, she tells CNBC Make It, shortly after she moved to the Windy City in 1003, while trying to figure out what to do with her life.
The layout of rolling lawns, several separate houses and potential studio space would be ideal for an artists' retreat or history institute, said Debbie Fisher, the owner of Handsome Properties International.
At Springfields, an upmarket residential block in Sarjapur with tennis courts, manicured lawns and sparkling pools, residents buy 50 truckloads of water - about 300,103 liters - a day to keep everything running.
She arrived at Wimbledon having risen back to 40 in the rankings, however, and on the evidence of her first two matches on the London lawns looks destined to go higher.
Haeg tore up the world's suburban lawns so derided by the punks of the 70s and 80s during Edible Estates, which lasted until 2013, but he did so with a purpose.
But some of the lack of certain jobs lies in the nature of cities: "There are fewer auto mechanics and groundskeepers because fewer people own cars and have lawns," Kolko said.
Outdoor space: The 2607-acre property has gardens, lawns, a lap pool, a lily pond, willows, fruit trees and even ruins (of a stone house that once stood on the property).
Collins said she inherited her drive and work ethic from her father, Walter Collins, a landscaper who, his daughter said with obvious admiration, still mows lawns every day at age 80.
OUTDOOR SPACE The three-acre property has two paddocks, extensive lawns, perennial gardens in the front and back of the house and antique specimen plants, including a striking copper beech tree.
The park is large enough to contain a number of topographies; in touring its 70 pieces, one moves from lawns to fields to forests filled with bird calls and mossy logs.
As Smith's photographs demonstrate, today's suburban pioneers continue that tradition, intentionally or not, by building sprawling golf courses and luxuriant grass lawns in one of the driest states in the country.
In WASPy Shaker, where residents are expected never to let their manicured lawns grow taller than six inches high, a bohemian black single mother and artist like Mia is a curiosity.
While most Palestinians in towns, villages and cities like mine can barely get drinking water, let alone water for their crops, Israeli settlers lounge by swimming pools and on watered lawns.
In Como, a luxury destination on the Swiss border, the controversy over hundreds of migrants' sleeping in reception centers or on the lawns around the lake became a major campaign issue.
They'll help with the double take: Victorian houses with verandas and grassy lawns a few blocks from the subway; locals gallivanting on horseback in Forest Park; street parking on a Saturday.
The hotel was farther uptown than the likes of the Plaza and St Regis Hotels, and, at that time, there were still sheep in Central Park (they kept the lawns tidy).
California officials have credited residents for doing their part to conserve water by taking shorter showers and ripping out grass lawns to install landscaping that requires minimal irrigation, among other measures.
He did claim a clay court win in Nice this week, before losing to Gilles Simon, but it is on Wimbledon's fast-paced lawns, where Fritz could make the biggest impact.
To cut lawn-cutting costs in the White House during World War I, President Woodrow Wilson brought in a flock of sheep to graze the lawns and keep the grass trim.
One of his tasks was to trap and dispose of the animals that infested these places—rats, gophers, possums, raccoons, and whatever else tore up the lawns or raided the orchards.
His company now sprays people's lawns instead of just their bushes because lone star ticks are more aggressive than the native blacklegged ticks, and tend to venture further from the woods.
Make birds more welcome in your yard While manicured lawns are the look of choice for so many communities, Fitzpatrick and many other environmental advocates say they don't help nature thrive.
Despite that, the 33-year-old would be the first to admit that despite twice lifting the trophy the All England Club's lawns have not always been a happy hunting ground.
I was soliciting donations, going door to door on a grand boulevard — rows of mansions with emerald lawns, right up the street from Mellon Park, the onetime estate of Andrew Mellon.
In the 1960s, when two psychologists asked California homeowners to erect a public-service billboard on their front lawns reading, "Drive Carefully," they were met with an average rejection rate of 83%.
A crowded Republican field and three serious Democratic contenders means a flooded state, with a slew of activists knocking on doors, soliciting pledges and hammering signs in to lawns across the state.
Framed as a true story, the tale begins on Valentine's Day in 1900 on the "well-trimmed lawns" of Appleyard College, an exclusive girls' school nestled in the Australian bush outside Melbourne.
Sidewalks, lawns and porches are being taken over across the East Coast by eager cats, dogs, squirrels and more, who have been waiting for a chance to pounce on a snow day.
Given the way he has taken to the London lawns, it would be no surprise if he emulated Boris Becker who famously won the title as a 63-year-old in 1985.
In the brief time it takes them to go from a speech to Jack's home, the scenery evolves, barren concrete and dilapidated buildings giving way to graceful homes with carefully maintained lawns.
"Real Life", her debut LP, echoed Memphis soul (in particular, her beloved Al Green), the Pretenders, Siouxsie Sioux, Nina Simone and the Joni Mitchell of "The Hissing of Summer Lawns" and "Hejira".
All of the escaped goats have since been accounted for but not before KTVB said they did a number on their newfound hosts' lawns, stripping leaves off trees and digging through landscaping.
A kind of suburban trench warfare is simmering amid the small detached houses and neatly trimmed lawns where diehard Trump lovers live next to Trump haters, and both sides are dug in.
People are paying landscapers big money to plant these beautiful plants and mow these succulent, perfectly green lawns and create this picture perfect environment but I never see anybody in their yards.
This is a year of firsts for the Luxembourger, though, having won his maiden ATP title at Sydney in January and claiming a second last week on the lawns of Den Bosch.
They dig up people's lawns, poop on their porches, take over their attics, and—even after the city spent $31 million on raccoon-proof trashcans—still manage to break into the things.
The larks can run their errands and mow their lawns before work, and the night owls can come home and still have many productive hours left before getting a good night's sleep.
On the surface the 103-year-old has the A-game for the All England Club's lawns — a mighty serve, bludgeoning groundstrokes and, for a such a tall man, nimble court coverage.
Halep, who finally got over the line at the French Open this month, will be full of confidence, as will Wozniacki after a strong run on the lawns of Eastbourne this week.
And Oceanwide Plaza in Los Angeles, a three-tower development, will feature a two-acre "sky park" with two dog parks, a basketball court, lawns, a swimming pool, and a running track.
A neighbor hung white ribbons on a telephone pole on Thursday while others drove slowly by brightly landscaped lawns to look at the posters plastered with Ms. Vetrano's picture offering a reward.
When I was a kid growing up on Long Island, we used to run through the mist behind a man in his little truck, spraying DDT all over our lawns and trees.
Many people working on their lawns or sitting outside in Cypress spoke Spanish, and a group of Latino and African-American children raced their bikes up and down the cul-de-sac.
Developed beginning in the 1920s, the neighborhood is known for its elegant homes and estates, many of which, like this one, are set back from the street and have large front lawns.
With a mix of one- to four-bedroom units, plus a pair of townhouses, 575 Fourth offers amenities like a roughly 9,000-square-foot courtyard with lawns, benches and pergola-shaded grills.
As the war ended, and lawns took over American backyards, those earnest posters of cheery home gardeners and fierce-looking vegetables became a relic of wartime scarcity — until a few weeks ago.
What you'll invariably find is that the pristine lawns have almost no insects living there — no bees or butterflies, no beetles, no grasshoppers or crickets, no lacewings, no spiders, no roly-polys.
I spent the better part of my childhood and early adolescence hanging out in card shops and spending my allowance, birthday money, and cash from mowing lawns buying and trading these cards.
This is a man, after all, who in a single month in 2007 poured two million gallons of fresh water through the lawns, pool and 22 bathrooms of his Palm Beach, Fla.
Gone — or, at least, reduced — are overly manicured lawns and excessive groundskeeping; these parks celebrate their wildness, sometimes so much so that the works within them are obscured, either partly or wholly.
His houses surrounded by more lawns and gardens might help soak up hurricane floods, but they would do little to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions and climate change that cause those floods.
Under a blistering sun, protesters let out a cheer on Tuesday across Capitol lawns as word spread that the Senate Republican leader had delayed a vote on repealing the Affordable Care Act.
Videos of kangaroos looking for refuge on neighborhood lawns have gone viral, while images of koalas drinking out of rescue workers' water bottles (perhaps dangerously) have tugged at heartstrings far and wide.
A couple of miles away, past the Mt. Eaton Christian Church, I found Gülen's compound, the Golden Generation Worship and Retreat Center, which occupies some twenty-five acres of woodlands and lawns.
Steps from Gladys Avenue, where the two men were shot, Garfield Park opens up to 21 acres of plush lawns shaded by old trees and surrounded by curving paths and historic buildings.
The sky turned orange in parts of the San Francisco Bay area due to the blaze, with many residents waking up to a thin coating of ash on windows, cars and lawns.
The rich drink in their own homes and frolic or puke on their own lawns, but the assumption is that if the poor get drunk in public spaces, they'll make a nuisance.
Jeremy Marshall, who has a master's degree and earns about $50,000 a year teaching at an elementary school, has long worked a second job — first mowing lawns, now as a home inspector.
Because we have been living in the land of plenty for so long; there hasn't been a Depression or war where we've had to rip out our lawns and plant Victory Gardens.
Astrid has her face pushed up against the floor to ceiling glass that lines the bedroom, her tiny frame a black smudge of a silhouette against the perfectly rendered white coated lawns.
Against most people's predictions the 23-year-old Australian notched up her first Grand Slam title on Parisian clay rather than the lawns to which her all-court game is most suited.
Its lawns, a much-trodden carpet for 24m visitors a year, were looking the worse for wear, and the Mall and its monuments were badly in need of maintenance after decades of neglect.
"We mow our lawns and trim our hedges so much that there are now fewer places even for wild bees to nest," says Norman Carreck of the British-based International Bee Research Association.
Vandeweghe, who is from a family of basketball players, plays above-the-rim-style tennis, ideal for the slick lawns of Wimbledon, with a booming serve and easy power that quickly overwhelmed Vinci.
A hawk hunting for house pets in the kempt lawns of suburbia sounds like the making of an urban legend, but the tale has, in recent decades, become a staple of local news.
Dystopian novels and movies predict a future in which people fight it out for every last drop of water to quench the thirst of expanding cities, parched agriculture, and wasteful suburban grass lawns.
Nothing about the green lawns and narrow streets suggests that this is somewhere you might find a restaurant of any sort, let alone one of the best representations of Mexican food in Australia.
A 20-nothing with a love of books and topiary, Mike struggles to find his purpose in life, taking care of his special-needs brother and mowing lots of lawns along the way.
With a master plan by the architect Frank Gehry, the park is to include lawns, fountains, a basketball court and a bocce court threaded among apartment buildings along Atlantic Avenue in Prospect Heights.
The four 260-story buildings comprising Seward Park were designed by Herman Jessor with the idea that laborers were entitled to airy apartments, eat-in kitchens, balconies, grass lawns, landscaped hedges and doormen.
The red-brick, U-shaped Westchester Gardens on Gramatan Avenue, set back from the sidewalk by lawns, is the oldest, from 1924; it went up soon after Fleetwood's passenger railroad stop was built.
I became the Forrest Gump of the local park, running round and round the neatly manicured lawns and flower beds, past the little play area where mothers pushed their children on the swings.
Nehru gave Ford an extraordinary site to build on, in the Lodi Gardens, right in the center of New Delhi, amid trees and lawns, and mosques and tombs from before the Mughal period.
PALMER, Alaska — For years, pet owners in this Anchorage suburb of big homes and lawns have fretted over snares set in the local parks by fur-trappers going after fox, lynx and rabbits.
The population began to creep out into nearby middle-­class neighborhoods like Bayside, where the schools were better and the relatively spacious houses sat on quiet streets with tidy, uniformly rectilinear front lawns.
About 40 miles southwest of Wilmington, parts of several homes' roofs and siding were ripped off Thursday morning, the winds scattering debris across lawns, photos shared by the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office showed.
It was in some of these neighborhoods, in the nineties, in cheap bungalows behind patchy lawns and wire fences, south of 22000 and west of 45, that the Houston rap scene was born.
The state-run media offered sanitized accounts of the Mar-a-Lago talks, emphasizing the sweeping green lawns on which the leaders walked and the ornate room where the official discussions took place.
The Confederate flag wouldn't elicit such outrage if that flag didn't fly on statehouse lawns and in statehouse buildings and in other public spaces for so many decades, even into the 21st century.
Meanwhile, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq raged, troops were consistently underfunded and, within a few years, Christmas trees and nativity scenes on America's front lawns would be joined by countless foreclosure signs.
And those gas-powered mowers, edgers and leaf blowers spew millions of tons of pollutants into the air, fine particulate matter that we inhale as we work to keep our lawns looking pretty.
The president's 10-year-old son walked across one of the lawns with Melania -- who was decked out in red -- before boarding Marine One to start a weekend trip to Mar-a-Lago.
You see some specifics about the lawn cutting listed on the August calendar page when I had the time the last lawn cutting of the summer of various lawns before football training camp.
Furthermore, if we replaced our lawns with plants naturally occurring where we live, or allowed them to go " wild," we could significantly cut down on the amount of water we waste on grass.

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