Far From the Madding Crowd: Durlston Today

Wednesday 4 May 2016

Durlston Today

A lovely day at Durlston Country Park, the meadows are now dominated by Cowslips and a few Early Purple orchids too.

4 comments:

Richard Pegler said...: You have a wonderful eye for nature with your camera, Lin. Delightful!

Best wishes - - - Richard; 6 May 2016 at 10:39
Roy Norris said...: Lovely images Lyn.
Hope you didn't make any 'Cowslip Balls."
I never did when I was a lad, but I understood from my wife that you picked and joined them together into a ball somehow.{:)); 8 May 2016 at 01:46
Linda Yarrow said...: Thankyou Richard.; 8 May 2016 at 23:46
Linda Yarrow said...: Thankyou Roy, no I did not pick any Cowslips, the only think I ever made as a child was the Daisy chain :-); 8 May 2016 at 23:47

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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.