Far From the Madding Crowd: Unlucky and at the same time Lucky

Monday, 2 May 2016

Unlucky and at the same time Lucky

Malcolm, my partner and I went to Morden Bog today for excercise so I did not take my camera with me and guess what, we saw a flock of Crossbills. Now I say unlucky because I did not have my camera but lucky because Morden Bog is surrounded by Wareham Forest which is quite an extensive area of pine woodland, so to see a flock of Crossbills is a miracle. So I count myself both unlucky and lucky at the same time. We saw plenty of Lousewort along our route, the picture I have posted was taken at Kingcombe Meadows in 2010.

I think I need to write a hundred lines, NEVER GO OUT WITHOUT YOUR CAMERA.

Lousewort

1 comment:

Richard Pegler said...: I don't often go out into the countryside without my camera, Lin, but when I do I usually regret it! I guess that you'll be going back there soon to try and recapture the moment!

Wishing you the very best of luck - - - - Richard; 3 May 2016 at 13:08

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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.