Far From the Madding Crowd: Brimstone butterfly

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Brimstone butterfly

Brimstone butterfly, a photo by Linda Yarrow on Flickr.

I have not seen many of these this summer. This was taken at Martin Down.

1 comment:

Roy Norris said...: Lovely shot Lyn.
Yes I don't think I have seen that many, certainly not as many as we usually do.; 31 July 2013 at 11:00

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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.