What unites the two communities is their traditional occupation, which was grain parching.
There is also an outer transverse series of four black spots on the orange parch in interspaces 2 to 5.
This hot wind blows strongly, often for several days at a time, defying all attempts to keep the dust down, and parching all vegetation.
When the air returns to sea level on the other side of the mountains, it recompresses, warms and dries, parching the deserts.
In aerial photographs parch marks are clearly visible across the nearby countryside and indicate the original route of the line.
They are still involved in their traditional occupation of grain parching.
Yet the sun remains unmoving in the sky, parching and burning all the ground beneath.
I do not pretend that you might not drop these matches safely when the ground is not parched, or when there is not so much inflammatory material about.
