1.   Construction sites dot the landscape, billboards tout new businesses, and locals gather to gawk at all the action downtown, where a renaissance is under way.

2.   Drive down the side streets and along secondary roads, and places like Bristol Hammock and Sugar Mill Plantation dot the landscape.

3.   He nurtured ancient myths and glory, pointing to domed Serbian Orthodox monasteries and churches that dot a landscape increasingly devoid of Serbs.

4.   Many new homes with small lots dot the landscape and, in the process, start eliminating one-time farmland.

5.   Postcard-pretty country cottages, the ones so often with horses grazing nearby, dot the landscape off the reservation.

6.   Such cases are common in Italy, where empty buildings dot the landscape, particularly in parts of the country drained by emigration.

7.   The mountaintops have been sheared off by mining companies in the search for coal and now dot the landscape south of Charleston, W. Va.

8.   There are Irish shamrocks and Celtic crosses marking grave sites, and names like the Galway Estate, Cork Hill, and the Shamrock Cinema dot the landscape.

9.   Outside, a coyote lopes across the snow, wending around craters that dot the landscape.

10.   Now only the black skeletons of manzanita and chamise chaparral dot a landscape painted in gray.