Fifty yards of grassy verge, dotted with shrubs, separated the street from an iron and concrete railing near the brink of the cliff.

The Atlantic is to your left - as little as 50 yards away at times over the small sand ridge dotted with palm trees.

The room was at the back of the house, with a window overlooking a very small back yard, paved and dotted with concrete bowls filled with more geraniums.

"Cornwall fits everything I wanted," he said, gesturing toward his perennial bed and the yard dotted with toys.

"I will not sign for them to take my home," Mr. Hardy said, showing his latest guests around a broad yard dotted with scrap piles, rabbit and hamster cages, and cars in various states of disrepair.

Lucker walks off to the car across the yard, pitted and dotted from a recent smatter of rain.

They stood atop a ridge, with the village nestled in a bowl of trees below them, centered around a small church with a broad yard dotted with grave markers.

They had come out into an open yard dotted with cold ashes.

Marino was driving, and we passed vast acres of vacant land strung with barbed wire and telephone lines, and front yards dotted with mailboxes painted like flower gardens and Uncle Sam.

The neighbors didn't appreciate the "wildflower meadow" I tried to cultivate once, and my efforts to plant pachysandra, ivy and vinca around the edges, in hope they would take over, have just produced a nice green border around a beige yard dotted with green islets of crabgrass and plaintain.