That was the case in 2004 when Germany's Jan Ullrich span off into a hayfield at 80kmph on a descent of the Pyrenees.
"There you'll be rewarded with fine views of Kinder Scout and The Dark Peak Area of the Peak District National Park," he says, "before thawing out in one of the many pubs of Hayfield".
He moved it to a friend's organic hayfield.
In Steven Spielberg's "War Horse," the British cavalry, swords drawn, charges out of a hayfield at daybreak, gallops across an open plain, and overruns a German field camp.
The tufts left behind were like an ill-cut hayfield, ragged clumps sprouting here and there.
The plot of land, five acres large, was the right size, with a hayfield and enough pasture for our own cow and whatever old horses were waiting to be fed to the foxes.
We moved houses, gained a barn, animals, and a hayfield and far more work than I realized those things would entail.
The couple begin to guide the wall through various spectacular landscapes, and the wall assumes the color of the backdrops, from the incandescent green of flora near a waterfall to the warm tan of a hayfield to the reddish brown of a mountain setting.
You can hear it in "Casting and Gathering": Years and years ago, these sounds took sides: On the left bank, a green silk tapered cast Went whispering through the air, saying hush And lush, entirely free, no matter whether It swished above the hayfield or the river.
Where to stay Cork's only five-star hotel, Hayfield Manor (+21 484 5900, hayfieldmanor.ie, doubles from €380) is in two acres of gardens at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, and feels more like a modern country retreat than a city-centre hotel.
All day the clunk of a baler Ongoing, cardiac-dull, So taken for granted It was evening before I came to To what I was hearing And missing: summer's richest hours As they had been to begin with, Fork-lifted, sweated-through And nearly rewarded enough By the giddied-up race of a tractor At the end of the day Last-lapping a hayfield.
