Far From the Madding Crowd: Nature's Architecture

Thursday, 21 August 2014

Nature's Architecture

On our way to Bournemouth beach through the gardens we came across this wasp nest and it is active, amazing to find this, so near the public pathway.

5 comments:

Roy Norris said...: It is amazing Lyn.; 21 August 2014 at 19:40
Linda Yarrow said...: Hi Roy, I was surprised to find it, actually it was my other-half, Malcolm, who found it.; 21 August 2014 at 22:25
Richard Pegler said...: How wonderful! is that a wasp entering it at the lower edge?; 22 August 2014 at 11:21
Linda Yarrow said...: Hi Richard, yes it is a wasp entering the nest, there were several wasps that came and entered the nest while I was trying to get a picture of the nest and to catch one flying in.; 22 August 2014 at 22:53
Glennis said...: While it is indeed amazing and interesting it is also dangerous. It wouldn't last long around here.; 28 September 2014 at 08:07

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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.