But heavy gray clouds obscured any view beyond the dark green foothills of the lush, wide valley of Lijiang.
Traversing dark green foothills thick with pines and spruce, the N232 had undergone extensive highway work, an unexpected bonus.
It is one of the great, historic cities of France, situated in the green foothills of its central, mountainous heart.
From the foothills to the frost line, all green.
They moved on across the mountains and over the green foothills until they came to a broad, rolling plain.
Soon the green foothills and snowy peaks of the Himalayas loomed in the distance.
Gruyères stands in the midst of the Fribourg green pre-Alpine foothills.
As this photo from Denali National Park shows, Alaska's landscape ranges from green foothills to icy peaks.
In "Isolation Peak" (circa 1930), a coldly sunlit, pyramidal mountain rises from rolling green foothills against an ominous, dark gray sky, a monument of pantheistic conviction.
More than thirty major buildings formed the main campus, their dusky red forms sweeping up a gentle rise of green foothills.