The unusual percussion instrument it uses, the geophone, indeed sounds like dry earth.

When she finds the scent of something she digs in a frenzy, her front legs kicking up a storm of dry earth behind her.

For most of the year the fields are barren as the bulbs of the crocus sativa germinate beneath the dry earth.

In the dry earth at the edge of the fields, new wild flowers are appearing, sometimes in profusion.

Dry earth gives way to squelching mud.