re: Well, there's the landscape!
Hmm, Mary Anne, when there's something else going on, it's not always in english!
I went to a village called Saint Amand, on the river Scheld, saturday. It happens to be the village of the poet Emile Verhaeren (who died in 1916); it was a flemish event but the poet was originally french speaking. The rhymes are in french but I saw some poems only in flemish (without the rhymes).
It's not easy to convey subtle texts in another language.
Raoul