Country diary: I’m immersed in the rich, chromatic aura of a summer meadow | Mark Cocker

Hartington Meadows, Derbyshire: Amid a complex reticulation of stalks, stems, blooms and leaves, the right response might be to drop down before it In his glorious poem Haymaking , about a flower meadow, Edward Thomas describes how the fiery day “had a kernel sweet of cold” and…

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