I just had to share this passage from the new PD James mystery, "The Lighthouse," describing the scenery of southern England viewed from a helicopter. I know you'll all enjoy it:
"The unfolding landscape had the neatness of a needlework collage, the clusters of woodland worked in knots of dark-green wool, the linen fields, some in muted colours of brown, pale gold,and green, and the winding side roads and the rivers laid out in strips of glistening silk. The small towns with their square church towers were miracles of meticulous embroidery."
Can't you *just* picture it? (You can tell that the character is also a poet!)
sue