Far From the Madding Crowd: Cowslips

Friday 11 May 2012

Cowslips

Cowslips, a photo by Linda Yarrow on Flickr.

We went to Fontmell Down today, a reasonbly nice day, cloud and........SUNSHINE:-))))

5 comments:

Phil said...: Beautiful photo. Just come back from a walk in Teesdale where we saw hundreds of cowslips. They seem to like the wet weather!; 11 May 2012 at 16:13
Roy said...: That is such a beautiful image Lyn.; 11 May 2012 at 19:14
kirstallcreatures said...: Fantastic photo of the cowslips, what a backdrop; 11 May 2012 at 22:59
Linda Yarrow said...: Thanks Phil, Roy, Kirstallcreatures:-); 12 May 2012 at 15:53
Jerry said...: What a lovely photo; especially love the contast of sharp focus on the Cowslips against the depth of field in the background.; 20 May 2012 at 23:49

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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.