In one we look out from the stage over a serene, autumnal forest.

At first it was like the wind rustling through the leaves of an ancient, autumnal forest; a dry, soughing noise that seemed half-articulate.

Highlights include Stephan Huber's dreamy vision of his parental home, digitally inserted into a frightening, windswept arctic landscape; Olafur Eliasson's otherworldly Icelandic topography; and Frank Darius's beautiful view of the Corbusier House apartment building, rising from a lush autumnal forest (Johnson).

And Patricia McBride blew like a leaf through this autumnal forest.

"Here we go," he said as the walls shimmered with a silvery luster, then seemed to fade to reveal an autumnal forest of great beech and maple trees.

Leaving the train behind, the speeders - which usually travel 15 to 25 miles an hour - rattled down track bordered by autumnal forest on one side and the roaring Esopus on the other.

His expansive views of waterfalls, autumnal forests and snowy woods have a vividly matter-of-fact sense of place.

Around midmorning, the thin road the two men had been following entered a leafless autumnal forest.

The sense of splendor and openness that is the ballet's birthright comes into play only in Act II, with its wonderful autumnal forest, and in Act III, with a glittering throne room whose high arches reveal a Versailles-style pavilion in an artificial lake.

I ran to the window and peered out on a world of autumnal forest and fields all a-sparkle with the diamonds of rain.