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Mon 26 Mar, 2012 09:12 pm
On a ridge above that building sat six well-kept houses for the graduate nurses, and on the next ridge, several large ones for the doctors.
Where are those houses? On the top of a building or in the yard?
A ridge is the top of a relatively steep incline, part of a hill or a mountain. It's generally of some length, i.e. not just the top of something like a cone. It's got six houses on top of it, or near the top. It stands behind "that building", whatever it is. The houses are not on top of the building or in its yard. They are behind it and above it, on the hill or mountain behind the building.
@MontereyJack,
There are quite a few ridges in that pic, MJ.
@JTT,
Ridge-walking is an enjoyable part of hill-walking, where you can see views down both sides of the hill (ridge) at once.
There's a Blue Ridge round my heart, Virginia
Tom Ridge, now-thankfully-ex director of the Department of Homeland Security
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