She turned right onto a blacktop driveway between two square brick posts, with a large dark house back there among towering trees.

The chateau and its auxiliary buildings stood at the nadir of a wide, winding blacktop driveway down through evergreens from a two-lane country road.

Pot-bound like a house plant, trapped between the mansion and the blacktop driveway, the copper beech showed signs of root rot.

Beyond the parking area was the potholed blacktop driveway leading out past the marine motor dealership and the wholesale fish company to Merrick Road.

Then he got out and walked toward the blacktop driveway that descended the steep wooded slope.

It's on the right side of the house, and just behind it, with a blacktop driveway that's crumbling here and there, overdue for a touchup.

I back up to take a second look, and that's it, all right, with a blacktop driveway leading in toward darkness next to it.

I turn and walk in along the blacktop driveway, and up ahead I see the house obscurely, through a thick necklace of trees.

Now the saplings that line the blacktop driveway are robust oaks.

Driving slowly up his blacktop driveway, he listened carefully to the engine.