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  • Finally everything turned green and the weather was so warm that all parks filled up with people doing pic-nic and sunbathing... too early?

    Hasselbackspotatis per festeggiare "Valborg" - SVEZIA Orchidea 2009

  • Uma intervenção na cidade de Lisboa realizada pelo CEM onde a Praça Luís de Camões foi palco de diversas actividades desde um almoço comunitário, a encontro de crouchet, workshops para crianças, ou um simples espaço para as pessoas estarem para um pic-nic.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Red 2007

  • Every park in the city is crowded with people having pic-nic and just relaxing... the picture above shows an appletree field that has more then 50 different kinds of appletrees.

    Crocchette di pesce e scampi... per l'estate che è finalmente arrivata a Stoccolma Orchidea 2009

  • There is a wonderful scene at the end of Little Women where "Marmee", her daughters and all of her grandchildren are sitting on the grass together enjoying the twilight of the day after a pic-nic.

    Widows 2007

  • Uma intervenção na cidade de Lisboa realizada pelo CEM onde a Praça Luís de Camões foi palco de diversas actividades desde um almoço comunitário, a encontro de crouchet, workshops para crianças, ou um simples espaço para as pessoas estarem para um pic-nic.

    Praça Verde / Green Square Red 2007

  • I think this is perfect food to take with you for a pic-nic... and with the warm weather of the last couple of days it is so nice to sit in a park under the sun and enjoy.

    Crocchette di pesce e scampi... per l'estate che è finalmente arrivata a Stoccolma Orchidea 2009

  • Thus, in the morning and forenoon, when Lady Penelope led forth her herd to lawn and shady bower, whether to visit some ruined monument of ancient times, or eat their pic-nic luncheon, to spoil good paper with bad drawings, and good verses with repetition — in a word,

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • If the survival of our nation is pegged on the likes of Bill Frist and Joe Lieberman…roll up the blanket, the pic-nic is over.

    Firedoglake » Where’s the Stamp? 2006

  • ‘You are making a delightful experiment in roughing it, — as people eat pic-nic dinners out in the woods occasionally, so that there may be a break in the monotony of chairs and tables.’

    John Caldigate 2004

  • We picked up a few specimens of fine sponge, and coral, white and red, which, if collected, might be valuable to Zayla, and, our pic-nic concluded, we returned home.

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

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