Willow Run, General Electric's enormous installations at Louisville and Syracuse, the Pentagon, Boeing in Seattle, Douglas and Lockheed in Los Angeles, the new automobile assembly plants everywhere -- none of these is substantially served by any sort of conventional mass rapid transit.

The Willow Road and University Avenue junctions with Bayfront Expressway are at-grade intersections controlled by traffic lights ; there are two additional controlled intersections at Chilco Road and Marsh Road, and the Marsh Road interchange on U. S. 101 is a parclo.

These include the Arctic Willow ( Salix arctica ) which is hard to recognize as a tree because of its low height.

In Latvia, Palm Sunday is called " Pussy Willow Sunday ", and pussy willows – symbolizing new life – are blessed and distributed to the faithful.

* Alan Pizzarelli, Senryu Magazine, River Willow, 2001. this book looks like a regular journal, it is the effort of Alan Pizzarelli only, done as a parody of haiku journals.

The stored molasses was awaiting transfer to the Purity plant situated between Willow Street and what is now named Evereteze Way, in Cambridge.

Instead, his insight, compassion, and support is how he helps his friends in the battle against evil ; for example, he brings Willow back from the brink of darkness with his unconditional love in Season Six.

Like Willow, she is also a witch.

On her own, she is nowhere near as powerful as Willow, but together they make a formidable magical team.

Tara is killed when Warren Mears accidentally shoots her, launching Willow's spiral into Dark Willow.

Willow Danielle Rosenberg is a fictional character created for the fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( 1997 – 2003 ).

The series begins as Buffy, Willow, and their friend Xander are in 10th grade and Willow is a shy and nerdy girl with little confidence.

Of the core characters, Willow changes the most, becoming a complex portrayal of a woman whose powers force her to seek balance between what is best for the people she loves and what she is capable of doing.

Willow appears in every Buffy episode ( making her the only character besides Buffy herself to do so ), is featured in three episodes of the spinoff Angel, an animated series and video game — both of which use Hannigan's voice, and the comic Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( 2007 – 2011 ), which uses Hannigan's likeness and continues Willow's storyline following the television series.

Willow is presented as a bookish nerd with considerable computer skills, dowdily dressed and easily intimidated by more popular girls in school.

They are mentored by the school librarian who is also Buffy's Watcher, Rupert Giles ( Anthony Stewart Head ), who often works closely with Willow in researching the various monsters the group encounters.

In the second season when the characters are in 11th grade, Willow becomes more sure of herself, standing up to the conceited Cordelia Chase ( Charisma Carpenter ), and approaching Xander, on whom she has had a crush for years, although it is unrequited as Xander is in love with Buffy.

Willow was noted to be the spirit of the Scooby Gang, and Hannigan attributed Willow's popularity with viewers ( she had by May 1998 seven websites devoted to her ) to being an underdog who develops confidence and is accepted by Buffy, a strong, popular person in school.

Hannigan described her appeal: " Willow is the only reality-based character.

In " Gingerbread ", her home life is made clearer: Sunnydale falls under the spell of a demon who throws the town's adults into a moral panic, and Willow's mother is portrayed as a career-obsessed academic who is unable to communicate with her daughter, eventually trying to burn Willow at the stake for being involved in witchcraft ; her father is never featured.

Willow is able to escape with Buffy, Xander, Giles, and Kennedy as Sunnydale is destroyed.

Willow reveals a host of new abilities including being able to fly and absorbing others ' magic to deconstruct it.

Susan Driver writes that younger viewers especially appreciate that Willow and Tara are able to be affectionate without becoming overly sexual, thus making them objects of fantasy for male enjoyment.

Unlike her relationship with Tara, Willow is able to hold a separate identity while with Kennedy.

In the season finale, when a griefstricken Willow tries to end the world, only Xander's compassion and love for her is able to stop her.

Willow finally returns Raziel to human form, and the sorceress is able to transform the soldiers back to people.

Other trees, some able to grow only due to the Gardens ' sheltered spot and warm climate, include an Australian Silver Wattle ( Acacia dealbata ) and a Canary Islands Date Palm ( Phoenix canariensis ), three Dawn Redwood ( Metasequola glyptostroboides ) from South-East China, and a form of twisted Willow, Salix matsudana ' Tortuosa ', from Northern China, as well as a Chusan Palm ( Trachycarpus fortunei ), a common Palm in the United Kingdom due to its hardiness.

Adam possesses a strong capacity for strategy, as well as physical strength that is far superior to Buffy's, and only through a spell cast by Willow, Xander and Giles was she able to defeat him.

Willow Rosenberg is soon after able to harness the Scythe's mystical essence and activate every Potential Slayer in the world.

Willow becomes a real ghost, able to walk through walls, Xander a soldier, and Buffy an 18th-century noble woman.

* The First was able to come back to attempt the annihilation of the Slayer line through Buffy's resurrection, which was carried out at the beginning of the 6th season by Willow, Xander, Anya, and Tara.

Willow reports to the Scooby Gang that the Mayor's computer files were emptied before she was able to access them.

Willow and the rest of the Scooby Gang were able to locate all the students on the list except Freddy Iverson and they all go looking for him.

Willow shocks Buffy with the news about Oz being able to control the wolf.

In the final episode of the series, " Chosen ", Buffy calls upon Willow to perform the most powerful spell she has ever attempted.

Following the sixth season, Willow struggles to allow herself to perform magic without the darkness within her taking her over.

* This episode marks the second time that Willow sits next to a distraught Spike on a bed and tries to comfort him ; the first time is when Spike returns to Sunnydale in Season 3 and kidnaps her to perform a love spell.

He routinely takes full advantage of this invitation, particularly during Season 5, until Willow and Tara perform the disinviting spell in " Crush ".

* In the scene where Willow confesses to Giles that she tried to perform a spell to have her will done a poster with the title " Murphy's Law " is visible over her shoulder ( may only be visible on widescreen versions ).

Inconsolable regarding the loss of her mother, Dawn reveals to Tara and Willow her intent to perform a resurrection spell.

Tara recognizes that something is wrong, and she and Willow perform a spell to find the real Buffy.

Willow, Tara, and Giles perform a spell to stop the spirits.

With some help from the rest of the gang, Buffy gets in a few good hits and takes a few as well before Willow and Tara perform a spell to teleport Glory somewhere else.