Far From the Madding Crowd: A Moment of Being Close

Friday 28 August 2015

A Moment of Being Close

Close enough to get this picture with my Lumix camera :-) We walked along the river Stour into Wimborne and on our way back saw this Kestrel, lovely bird.

2 comments:

Roy Norris said...: Fantastic shot Lyn.; 9 September 2015 at 18:41
Linda Yarrow said...: Thankyou Roy.; 9 September 2015 at 22:35

My Blog

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.