AtD translation: a field of bells emerged into flower

[David Morris]

My take:

Island Murano's fame is its glass monopoly.  The objects, chimneys, that
rise, "emerge," above the red clay roofs, are from glass furnaces. Maybe
the flower imagery is from smoke plumes, but that's pretty weak. But might
that smoke be blue, like the bell flower?

David Morris

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 8:22 PM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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