AtD translation: a field of bells emerged into flower

Mike Weaver mike.weaver at zen.co.uk
Fri Feb 15 20:21:42 CST 2019


campanula's are known as bell flowers as here 
<https://www.123rf.com/photo_55855915_field-with-wild-bellflower.html>

On 16/02/2019 00:49, Mike Jing wrote:
> P243.1-6   Across the city noontide a field of bells emerged into flower,
> as the boys came swooping in over Murano, above wide-topped red-clay
> chimneys the size of smokestacks, known as fumaioli, according to the local
> pilot, Zanni. “Very dangerous, the sparks, they could blow up the balloon,
> certo,” drops of perspiration flying off his face at all angles, as if
> self-propelled.
>
> What does "a field of bells emerged into flower" mean here?
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