Upstate New York hotels didn’t used to be places travelers went in search of a luxury farm-chic experience. Then a few years ...

The Driftwood Ranch ... four-poster beds with hand-stitched quilts and pastoral print archival wallpaper. The Feathers, a tavern-restaurant overlooking Rondout Creek, will serve early-American ...

But cattle gorge themselves on the pastures that sprout whenever wet season rains fill the dry creek beds -- or channels -- that snake through the region.

Huntsville Landscape Management plans for the trees to be shown in their natural settings by creating large berms, dry creek beds and bogs to simulate swampy areas with the help of Public Works.

Most of the time its sweeping plains are dry and inhospitable. But cattle gorge themselves on the pastures that sprout whenever wet season rains fill the dry creek beds -- or channels -- that snake ...