11.   As warm sun baked the agricultural valleys of Monterey and Santa Cruz counties Tuesday, residents cautiously returned to survey damage to their homes.

12.   Black pipes that snake across the desert floor look like railroad tracks that have run amok under the blue skies and warm sun.

13.   A warm sun can bring out bare patches, bones of granite, logs and whatever was on the trail before the snow fell.

14.   A warm sun came out, the wind abated.

15.   But Ms. Allende, the Chilean novelist, was, for the moment, immune to the poetry and the pleasure of the warm sun.

16.   But there were others, set in stately rows and bedded in straw, their fine leaves starting to glint gold in the still warm sun of early fall.

17.   But then, as a warm sun spread through the mountains, Wednesday dawned bright for Street.

18.   Capitol Hill was nearly deserted in the warm sun.

19.   Even as I enjoyed the warm sun on my neck and the moist soil in my fingers, I knew I was performing a foolish and uneconomic act.

20.   For two hours we caught fish in the blessedly warm December sun.