Far From the Madding Crowd: The Not-so-Pretty Orchid

Monday, 16 June 2014

The Not-so-Pretty Orchid

The not-so-pretty orchid is the Common Twayblade orchid. This was taken at Fontmell Down, there was plenty of Common Spotted orchid in the area also.

2 comments:

holdingmoments said...: Another new one for me Linda.; 17 June 2014 at 05:51
Richard Pegler said...: Yep, I have to agree with you. Not so pretty - in fact, not pretty at all really!

Nice shot though, Linda.; 17 June 2014 at 15:35

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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.