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  • Drive to Wellfleet's idyllic Duck Harbor Beach at the end of Chequessett Neck Road, spread a towel on this stretch of west-facing sand and dip into the gentle waters of Cape Cod Bay.

    Cape Cod Jeff Chu 2011

  • They stripped all but a modest few leaves from the slender north and west-facing branches, but a chill, still December left sizeable numbers on the sheltered branches facing east and south.

    Country diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire 2011

  • Curent listings for available garden space range from a balcony in Queen Anne with “fantastic morning sun,” to a ready-to-plant raised bed in Ballard, to a west-facing terraced lot in West Seattle, to a 5-acre horse farm on the Eastside with a deer-proof garden space and room for an orchard.

    Matchmaking gardeners with gardens 2009

  • In the brightest rooms, those with south and west-facing windows, soft shades of warm colors can play up the sunlight.

    Lavender, Wisteria, or Black? How to Pick a Wall Color 2011

  • The whole west-facing wall was nothing but windows that overlooked a panorama of limitless blue water, and the hospital bed had been placed in a position so that when Velma was in the bed, she could gaze out at that million-dollar view.

    Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011

  • Eric Bellman/The Wall Street Journal The windows of the west-facing entrance of the house seem mostly covered.

    Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's New Home 2010

  • Shadows extend towards sunlit water chopped with yellow and blue reflections as the lowering sun gilds the west-facing tree canopy and burnishes the masses of haws on banks of bracken.

    Country diary: Cornwall Virginia Spiers 2010

  • Savills The townhouse has a west-facing roof terrace with panoramic views of the London skyline.

    London Townhouse 2010

  • The whole west-facing wall was nothing but windows that overlooked a panorama of limitless blue water, and the hospital bed had been placed in a position so that when Velma was in the bed, she could gaze out at that million-dollar view.

    Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011

  • The tiny hotel, containing only four luxury suites, sits on the west-facing wall of the Santorini caldera, a geographical anomaly in which the rocky remnants of an ancient volcano soar above the Aegean Sea.

    Hotels With The Most Beautiful Views Jacqueline Detwiler 2010

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