Improving the daily business of the countryside appears suited to Paterson.
9. Hawthorn in flower In contrast to the frosty white blossom of the blackthorn, in flower now, hawthorn blossoms are a rich creamy-white, and when they flower in big hawthorn hedges which stretch right across fields, the countryside appears to have been garlanded for a wedding.
But new measures in the countryside appear to sanction people farming for the market rather than for the state.
The story of Prime Minister David Cameron and his ride on a retired police horse in the Oxfordshire countryside appears, for now at least, to lack the elements of a full-blown scandal.
Lines don't appear complete, fabrics look rough and the English countryside appears ominous.
Like many B westerns, the Mesquiteers films take place in two time frames at once: in the countryside, it appears to be about 1880, but as the plotlines approach the city, things seem more and more like the America of Franklin D. Roosevelt, complete with cars, radios, airplanes and a full New Deal complement of greedy businessmen and crooked bankers to provide villainy.
"The countryside may appear to have fewer problems than cities, but urban problems, like crime and delinquency, are catching them up.
In an hours-long trip into the countryside, the lush jungle appears untouched at first, with brightly colored parrots squawking in the distance and children playing in green fields.
Still, problems have already appeared in the countryside: Farmers in several provinces have said they have been unable to get immediate payment when they sold rice to the government.
Well, no, but every season is more vivid in the countryside, especially autumn, when mushrooms appear in the woods, when the harvest is manifest in every orchard and field, and, slightly less charmingly, when every car journey can take 20 minutes longer because of the potato lorries trundling along.
And then, nearing the lake, a fence appeared, closing off the countryside behind taut strings of barbed wire.
