There were some fair American costumes and faces in the crowd, but it was essentially Quebeckian.

All around, wild flowers transform stark mountains into alpine paradises, and the song of the long-tailed meadowlark rises over open areas.

See the Chidushey Ha-Ran, who states that even if one is no longer busy cutting / , i.e., with the milah,/ but /already/ started /doing/ the periah he is /nevertheless/ still classed as being occupied with the milah, since milah and periah are /classed as parts of/ the same action.

[…]but he was essentially a lone traveller in areas beyond the pale of human society.