Far From the Madding Crowd: The Great Brain Training Exercise

Sunday, 25 April 2010

The Great Brain Training Exercise

Take pictures of wild flowers, then when you get home, search your books and the Internet for their ID - is a great way of exercising your brain. The real exercise of the brain comes when you go out again, see these flowers again and then try to remember what they are.

Lousewort. Taken at Kingcombe nature reserve.

Coltsfoot. Taken at Powerstock nature reserve.

Wood Anemones. Taken at Kingcombe nature reserve. One of our familiar wild flowers that is not forgettable.

The furtile shoots of the Horsetail. Taken at Powerstock nature reserve.

River Hooke at Kingcombe nature reserve.

3 comments:

holdingmoments said...: I agree with the trying to remember the names, back out in the field. Not always easy. I'll have to start revising. lol
Lovely shots Linda; 26 April 2010 at 05:43
Midmarsh John said...: I don't know about a brain training exercise but I often find it a very frustrating venture, especially when so many plants and insects look so alike in photographs.; 26 April 2010 at 08:54
Anonymous said...: Looks like a great place to visit Lyn.; 26 April 2010 at 11:47

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I have taken the title of my blog from Thomas Hardy's fourth novel 'Far From the Madding Crowd' which he wrote in 1874. He took his title from Thomas Gray's poem 'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard' completed in 1750. Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset where he lived for most of his life and where he based the stories in his novels. The word 'madding' means frenzied and there is a sense of freedom I get being out in the countryside and being close to nature away from the frenzied atmosphere of the towns and cities. I live in Dorset and like Thomas Hardy, it is where I have lived for most of my life, my blog is mostly about nature in Dorset. I am a member of the Dorset Wildlife Trust. I will include my garden and anything of interest about the natural world in Britain.