Far From the Madding Crowd: Neptune at Harwick Hall, County Durham

Monday, 23 December 2013

Neptune at Harwick Hall, County Durham

Neptune at Harwick Hall, County Durham, a photo by Linda Yarrow on Flickr.

This was taken on Christmas Day, 2009. What a difference this Christmas is going to be, a very soggy one. I wish you all a very Happy Christmas:-)

5 comments:

Roy Norris said...: Merry Christmas Lyn.; 24 December 2013 at 00:44
Roy Norris said...: Merry Christmas Lyn.; 24 December 2013 at 00:44
Richard Pegler said...: A very happy Christmas to you too, Linda.

All the best for 2014.

Richard; 24 December 2013 at 10:05
holdingmoments said...: It certainly is very different this year.; 24 December 2013 at 10:19
Ginny Hartzler said...: How lovely and peaceful! Madding is one of my favorite movies of ll time! I even saw it at the theater when it first came out. I love your unusual bee shot.; 23 April 2014 at 05:45

My Blog

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.