Far From the Madding Crowd: Nature's Art Work on a Canvas of Green

Friday 3 June 2016

Nature's Art Work on a Canvas of Green

A field at Morden Bog is looking brilliant at the moment, it is nature doing her artwork, painting a field with blue of the Germander Speedwell, red of the Sheep's Sorrel and yellow of the buttercup. It is also Dorset Arts Week at the moment so I think nature has done a good job :-)

Germander Speedwell

Sheep's Sorrel

Germander Speedwell and Sheep's Sorrel

Swathe of Germander Speedwell and Sheep's Sorrel

This is only a small section of the field

3 comments:

Roy Norris said...: Very artistic Lyn. The third one especially.; 4 June 2016 at 19:05
Richard Pegler said...: Flower meadows are always a delight, Lin, but this one is extra-special. Thank you for showing us this beautiful scene!; 5 June 2016 at 09:22
Linda Yarrow said...: Thankyou Roy and Richard.; 7 June 2016 at 00:10

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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.