Its oval infield served as a green, immaculately tended meadow that encircled the 300-foot-wide papal platform and flanked it with two man-made lakes.

The enmity began when he reached the top of the hill, a wide, almost flat expanse of lawn and garden immaculately tended, with crushed ores from the smelter making neat paths.

Behind him, through the dark-blue latticework of the Bali micro-blinds, Simbal could see the White House, part of the immaculately tended rose garden.

It's a peaceful and immaculately tended setting with a decent swimming pool - a useful break from the road.

One needn't be seasoned theatergoer to sense, early on in "Hidden Laughter," a world premiere at Hartford Stage, that the country is no paradise for the Pertwees, and that the floral outburst, immaculately tended by the vicar of the village, is the playwright's camouflage for disordered lives.

Flower lovers will want to explore the immaculately tended New Orleans Botanical Gardens, Victory Drive, City Park, (504) 483-9386, www.neworleanscitypark.com/nobg.php, while they are in various stages of bloom.

White marble crosses and Stars of David stretch off in seemingly endless rows, surrounded by an immaculately tended expanse of lawn.

I was going to tell you, 1 came across an immaculately tended German military cemetery.

Past the small, immaculately tended park, on the far side of Sakuradori he came to sanchome, the third area designation in Toranomon.

From within that cornfield - a symbolic repository of cherished American values - an entire baseball team materializes, literally stepping out of the past to play on an immaculately tended diamond.