Sparks can come from activities as seemingly innocuous as towing a trailer through brush, since any chains dragging could throw sparks, or driving a vehicle over dry grass, as hot exhaust pipes can start fires.
The flock are only there for about a week at a time so the grass is never exhausted and the land never gets sheep-sick.
Most consumers associate two-stroke with chain saws, grass trimmers and smelly exhaust, but this technology also found its way into a few automobiles, such as Saabs in the 1950s and the unloved East German Trabant.
These include, as a bonus, Courbet's stunning forerunner, "Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine," from 1856-57, wits its precise rendering of the dresses and petticoats of its women of the street, flopped, exhausted, on the grass.
We collapsed exhausted on the grass and spent the day watching bearded men parade about with swords in their belts, children ride horses bareback and the faithful sing otherworldly hymns.
Stephens withdrew from Eastbourne and so is without any match preparation on grass, but conversely Hampton may be exhausted from a long stretch, which started in the qualifying draw.
Exhausted, I sat on the grass and watched the bustle beyond the square, couples clustered over their espressos and tall Szalon beers, the newspaper-seller reading in his elaborate kiosk.
On the upside, that yummy aroma of freshly cut grass would counter the ambient scents of bus exhaust and ripening refuse.
"There are stunned bushes and exhausted flowers and brokenhearted patches of grass.
Idlewild's original source of Ammophila was the Montauk section of L. I., but the supply there is exhausted, & in recent months the grass has been imported from Cape Cod.
