Far From the Madding Crowd: Field of Buttercups with the view of the Snake Walk

Thursday 6 June 2013

Field of Buttercups with the view of the Snake Walk

Field of Buttercups with the view of the Snake Walk, a photo by Linda Yarrow on Flickr.

Had a lovely day at Glastonbury. Walked up the hill to the Tor. The Fields of buttercups in the sunshine look brilliant, the buttercups do seem to reflect the sunlight.

4 comments:

holdingmoments said...: Fields of buttercups in the sun always look spectacular don't they Linda. A lovely shot from a lovely part of the country.; 7 June 2013 at 08:25
Linda Yarrow said...: Thankyou Keith, they do look spectacular, they are an underrated flower, most people would probably view them as weeds.; 7 June 2013 at 16:40
Renkli Dünyam said...: Hi,
Wonderful photo,wonderful nature...Loves from Denmark.; 8 June 2013 at 08:18
Richard Pegler said...: Beautiful photo Linda! What's the story behind the 'snake walk'? At first, I thought that it was some sort of off-road motor sport circuit!; 11 June 2013 at 07:19

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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.