Far From the Madding Crowd: Purple and Yellow

Wednesday 30 April 2014

Purple and Yellow

It was magical seeing swathes of Early Purple orchids with the Cowslips at Durlston Country Park today. We were lucky to have sunshine as it had been foggy.

4 comments:

holdingmoments said...: Lovely sight indeed.
No sign of any up here yet. :-(; 1 May 2014 at 06:01
Roy Norris said...: Lovely shot Lyn.
I have not seen any early purple yet and these are well out.; 2 May 2014 at 11:36
Linda Yarrow said...: There are loads of Early Purple orchids at Durlston Country park, the most I have ever seen.; 2 May 2014 at 23:59
Richard Pegler said...: Orchids and Cowslips - it doesn't get much better than that, Linda!!

A lovely image!; 5 May 2014 at 09:38

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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.