A dead almond orchard in California's Central Valley.
Clip the dead branches in the orchard and edge the borders.
Some of these have swelled in the passage from novel to screen: what was, for McEwan, a single rotting corpse underfoot becomes for Wright and Hampton an orchard strewn with dead schoolgirls, each of them with a bullet hole in the brow.
Not a bad summer job for an 18-year-old: fertilizing the female organs of hundreds of apricot flowers in a sunny orchard, listening to Grateful Dead tapes via speakers set on top of my lime-green Chevy Nova.
The three victims were found dead in their third-floor apartment at 36 Orchard Street soon after fire trucks, which eventually numbered almost 20, arrived.
Family members who gathered along Orchard Street on Tuesday identified the dead as Mario Castellan, 28; Augustina Calixto, 24; and their youngest daughter, Ana Laura.
These associations form an elliptical poetry that is vintage Harrison: "I suddenly remembered my last nap using Lola" — his dog, now dead — "as a pillow out in the cherry orchard in May when the trees were blooming.
The nearby clenched-fist memorial to the Republican dead up on the hills among the olive orchards has, since last year, been daubed with paint, presumably by some local Falangists.
Afterward, the dead and wounded were laid out in a nearby orchard, a police official said, before ambulance crews arrived.
Related: Pasco autopsy contradicts police account that victim was not shot in back Zambrano-Montes, an orchard worker living in Pasco, Washington, was shot dead by local police on 10 February after he was reportedly seen throwing rocks at traffic.
