Joe Cardone stared out the window at his backyard lawn.

Shadows lay across the backyard lawn and the pool.

And by leaving an area of brush or scrub between the forest and the backyard lawn, what they're doing is providing optimum tick environment.

He's a really big dog, a 100-pound Labrador retriever, gentle in all ways except for the violence he regularly performs on our backyard lawn.

Cooper reached the end of the backyard lawn, fully covered with virgin snow.

The status signs of her empty prosperity are everywhere: a compact car parked right on the stage; a garden sprinkler for the backyard lawn; a refrigerator in the kitchen.

It happened, as it does every year, on the backyard lawn of Elaine Benson's art gallery.

Rounded stretches of scales and muscle curved through the walls and spilled onto the backyard lawn and into the dining room.

The next morning, three body bags lay on the couple's backyard lawn where their three children normally play.

"Some people stand it up on their backyard lawn," Ms. McLeod said.