Unusual rains had kept the land astonishingly green; masses of wildflowers - poppies, purple clover and yellow, white and lavender blooms I couldn't identify - blanketed the roadside.

To a thick pile of sweet purple clover where they spent the remaining hours of the afternoon of their wedding like a beggar's precious last coins on a splendid feast.

Yesterday's rain had rinsed the landscape clean and brought out the bright greens of the lower daleside, dotted with purple clover, yellow buttercups and celandines.

He pointed out flowers: asters and goldenrod, snakeroot and cone flowers, prairie roses and purple clover.

"The Fast Runner" includes some unforgettable sequences, shot in the smoky interiors of igloos, out on the ice and in fields of yellow grass and purple clover during the brief spring thaw.

But if I'd traveled by bus both ways I wouldn't know that there is purple clover at the Pointe de la Varde and lovely soft muck at the bottom of Rotheneuf Harbor.

Song and singing soon are over As the airy shades that hover In among the purple clover.

Inland from the gunport, deserted roads passed field yellow with crown daisies and splashed with purple clover.

Another slices through the purple clover of early summer on the highland plains.