Od wschodniej strony, już poza terenem farmy rozpościerało się kolejne wzgórze - „Wzgórze Mgły” z trzema lombardzkimi topolami wieńczącymi wierzchołek. Wyobrażając sobie krajobraz Wyspy, pamiętajmy, że jest ona stosunkowo mało zróżnicowana wysokościowo – najwyższy punkt (Springton Peak) sięga tylko 152 m n.p.m.
Krajobraz z PEI - z początku XX w. - farmy dość rzadko rozmieszczone - inaczej niż w polskich wioskach |
„Pole - pożegnania lata czyli astrów” (the field of Farewell Summers) we wrześniu ozdobione kwitnącymi drobnymi astrami w typie michałków.
„Sekretne pole” (the Secret Field) o charakterze śródleśnej polanki otoczone przez lasy klonowo-jodłowe, porośnięte paprociami (w tym orlicam). W narożniku przy wejściu na pole rosły dwa małe świerki nazwane „Królową Lasu” i „Księżniczką Paproci”. Było to ukochane pole Pat, która zbierała tutaj poziomki (żadne truskawki!!!). Dedykacja powieści (To Alec and May and The Secret Field) wskazuje, że takie „Sekretne pole” miała również sama Maud (tutaj więcej o tym klik>). Ostatnim wymienionym polem jest kamienisty ugór za stodołą
The big grove of white birch on the hill behind it which gave Silver Bush its name and which was full of dear little screech owls that hardly ever screeched but purred and laughed. Beyond it all the dells and slopes and fields of the old farm, some of them fenced in with the barbed wire Pat hated, others still surrounded by the snake fences of silvery-grey "longers," with golden-rod and aster thick in their angles.
Pat loved every field on the farm. She and Sidney had explored every one of them together.
To her they were not just fields ... they were persons. The big hill field that was in wheat this spring and was now like a huge green carpet; the field of the Pool which had in its very centre a dimple of water, as if some giantess when earth was young had pressed the tip of her finger down into the soft ground: it was framed all summer in daisies and blue flags and she and Sid bathed their hot tired little feet there on sultry days. The Mince Pie field, which was a triangle of land running up into the spruce bush: the swampy Buttercup field where all the buttercups in the world bloomed; the field of Farewell Summers which in September would be dotted all over with clumps of purple asters; the Secret Field away at the back, which you couldn't see at all and would never suspect was there until you had gone through the woods, as she and Sid had daringly done one day, and come upon it suddenly, completely surrounded by maple and fir woods, basking in a pool of sunshine, scented by the breath of the spice ferns that grew in golden clumps around it. Its feathery bent grasses were starred with the red of wild strawberry leaves; and there were some piles of large stones here and there, with bracken growing in their crevices and clusters of long-stemmed strawberries all around their bases. That was the first time Pat had ever picked a "bouquet" of strawberries.
In the corner by which they entered were two dear little spruces, one just a hand's-breadth taller than the other ... brother and sister, just like Sidney and her. Wood Queen and Fern Princess, they had named them instantly. Or rather Pat did. She loved to name things. It made them just like people ... people you loved.
They loved the Secret Field better than all the other fields. It seemed somehow to belong to them as if they had been the first to discover it; it was so different from the poor, bleak, little stony field behind the barn that nobody loved .. . nobody except Pat. She loved it because it was a Silver Bush field. That was enough for Pat.
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