Four things struck me about this photograph of Pickard's Baulk in Derbyshire, England. First, all that greenness—not quite Middle-earth, but quintessentially English. Well, except, second: those stone walls instead of hedges. They locate the scene in the north and emphasize the rectilinearity of the fields. So, third, maybe a need for some rewilding? Let the trees in the middle spread? The central grove of trees is the fourth feature that delighted me, for it led me to the word baulk, one definition of which is "ground left unploughed as a boundary line between two ploughed portions" (OED). Splendid specificity!
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