Article 2YS2N Purple streaks of thistles garnish the sodden fields

Purple streaks of thistles garnish the sodden fields

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Paul Evans
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Wenlock Edge Rain hardens summer's lushness and the vivid knapweed seems loaded with the uncanniness of the season

On the windmill meadow, above a green rind of grasses and below their fidgety seedheads in the rain is the dotty purpling of knapweed.

The jet stream divides August in Europe. As the south swelters in life-threatening temperatures, this side of the shower curtain is cool, wet and, after Lammas Day, thistly.

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