Sparse Traffic While the village, with its municipal offices, churches, school, library and well-kept old houses, remains a focal point, most of the town of North Stonington is a gently rolling countryside of green fields and small woodlots.
Even the most utilitarian stretches of countryside — the fields of corn stubble — have been glazed with what feels like a kind of anticipation, a readiness for snow if it ever comes again.
To reach a surprising place, follow Route 6 south of Bucharest as it unwinds across the Romanian countryside, past fields of wildflowers and flocks of sheep.
Irène rides in a troika through the countryside amid fields of sunflowers and groves of pine and birch trees.
If we wander through the countryside, passing fields of wheat, it is apparent that this crop is reasonably short in stature and that the stems carry large ears.
Sweden protects its open spaces, so the countryside around Uppsala is a mix of fields and forests, with the view back to Uppsala dominated by the pink, turreted castle and the brick spires of the cathedral (where Linnaeus is buried).
It's surrounded by 17 acres of countryside, including woods, fields, a wildflower meadow, streams and ponds, so you can spend your time foraging, pond-dipping or trying to spot herons, hares, deer and barn owls.
Long shots that show the train wending its way through the Mexican countryside, a field of corn next to the American border, the tender moments that the incomprehensible Chauk shares with his friends (and the audience) are the moments that stay with you.
On my way back to Madrid, I am enamored by the countryside of Bilbao, how flat land open fields lead to the lowest valleys and highest mountains.
Arenas's book offered up just such depth, with its plethora of poetic images: the dirt-poor countryside, the gleaming fields of sugar cane harvested with revolutionary fervor, the island as penitentiary, the tropical boy's first glimpse of snow, the ghostly existence of an exile in New York.
