Georg Schultz raised up on his elbows to peer at the ripening fields of wheat and oats and barley, made a sour face.

"Never," he assured her, turning his gaze from the ripening fields to his own beauteous bride.

He leaned against the hot metal of his car that the sun polished and with his mouth slightly open looked at his ripening field.

To their left were the ripening fields of wheat, barley, and maize Bonnie had glimpsed earlier: dark, defining lines of dry stone walls sketching out rows.

Through dense Marre pine forests and towering ammonwood copses, across the ripening fields of Lonon, along rocky wind-scoured ridges, down grassy dells they sped.

The sea breeze was warm out of the south, and the evening star gleamed just above the line of the hills beyond the ripening fields.

Baedecker could remember the sweetness of that breeze, coming as it did across so many miles of ripening fields.

But appetite did not keep him from carefully inspecting the arrangements as Arigh's parry rode up through ripening fields of wheat and barley.

Later, on the flat rooftop of the house, gazing out over the patchwork of ripening fields, Dharamvir bemoaned the growing materialism of India.

The ripening fields shone like burnished gold and even Struan's grey houses took on a kind of beauty, their hard edges softened by the warm glow of summer.