(4) About 30 buildings were destroyed after tanker cars laden with oil caught fire in the picturesque lakeside town.(3) A general practitioner practising from 1940 onwards on the Gruyère region describes visually his former task: permanence on call, daily journeys of 80 km for house calls, often on skis or by sleigh, surgery under most primitive conditions, serious decisions taken lonely, diphtheria-epidemics, frequent tuberculosis, penicillin as a major break-through, picturesque human encounters.A lively testimony of times gone by.(2) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.(1) Hamish Kale Floating sauna near Uppsala, Sweden Just outside Uppsala, around one hour north of Stockholm, lies the picturesque outdoor adventure area of Fjällnora.(a.) Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial graphic vivid as, a picturesque scene or attitude picturesque language.