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Sophie, in the winter woods - 1976.
Nine months old, and coming into adult coat.
On buying our 1st house, she was our next purchase.
Both Pat and I had always wanted a Rough Collie, so it began.
www.roughcolliebreedcouncil.co.uk/protectedaffixes/ugony....
Taken at Exbury Gardens using a Sony 30mm macro lens. I'm not sure of my ID, anybody got any other ideas ?
Pine trees in Puddletown Forest near Thomas Hardy's Cottage in Dorset.
Hasselblad 501 CM with Carl Zeiss Planar 2,8/80 C T*, Ilford FP4 Plus, f16 at 1/30 sec. Scanned with Epson Perfection V800.
February sunset - Rushy Pond - Egdon Heath - Thorncombe Wood - Dorset
'"The untameable, Ishmaelitish thing that Egdon now was it had always been. Civilization was its enemy: and ever since the beginning of vegetation its soil had worn the same antique brown dress, the natural and invariable garment of the particular formation. . . . The great inviolate place had an ancient permanence which the sea cannot claim."
Thomas Hardy, 'Return of the Native'
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A dense cover of trees and scrub shades out heather and heathland wildlife. Over time soils can become enriched, making them unsuitable for heathland flora. Removing and controlling scrub such as birch, pine, willow, rhododendron and sometimes gorse, is an essential element of heathland management.
Tree and scrub removal has been carried out in this area of Puddletown Forest, around the Rainbarrows. The work is being completed through the Hardy's Egdon Heath Project , and is supported by English Nature and the Heritage Lottery Fund under the Tomorrow's Heathland Heritage programme. This burnt area has something very orange growing on it.
Bluebells are out in force in the woods. It's kinda hard to get them looking as good as they do when you are there, they tend to look less dense, hence the low shot to compress them together.
Taken in Puddletown Forest near Dorchester.
This stone stands at the side of a minor road linking Stinsford and Tincleton 2 miles east of Dorchester. It is possibly an old boundary stone but may well be prehistoric and re-worked by the Romans when they built a road close by. It stands 5' high with a circumference of about 4'.
After Dorchester, a visit to National Trust Hardy's Birthplace, for Hardy's Cottage. We did not know that you had to prebook a visit to the cottage, so only saw it from the outside when we walked up the lane.
There was a Visitor Centre near the car park where you could have a drink, or an ice cream.
Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, is a small cob and thatch building that is the birthplace of the English author Thomas Hardy. He was born there in 1840 and lived in the cottage until he was aged 34—during which time he wrote the novels Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) and Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) when he left home to be married to Emma Gifford.
The cottage was built by Hardy's great-grandfather in 1800. It is now a National Trust property, and a popular tourist attraction. The property has a typical cottage garden, and the interior displays furniture which, although not from the Hardy family, is original to the period. The property is situated on the northern boundary of Thorncombe Wood.It is only three miles from Max Gate, the house that Hardy designed and lived in with Emma Gifford from 1885 until his death in 1928.
In 2012 the go ahead was given to a project to build a new visitor centre near the cottage. The project also included new trails in Thorncombe Wood. The project, which secured £525,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, was a joint partnership between Dorset County Council and the National Trust. The visitor centre opened in September 2014.
Behind Hardy's Cottage was Puddletown Forest.
Memorial to Thomas Hardy.
Thomas Hardy. O.M.
was born in the adjacent cottage 2nd June 1840
and in it wrote
"Under the Greenwood Tree"
and
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
This monument is erected to
his memory by a few of
his American admirers
1931
looking south across Duddle Heath, Puddletown Forest, Frome Valley and in the distance the Purbeck Hills and Dorset Ridgeway
Val's photos of the Half Marathon coming through Beacon Hill in Puddletown Forest. Photographs from a collection of photographs taken by members of Dorchester Camera Club at the first Dorchester Marathon and Half Marathon which started at Coker's Frome Dorchester on Sunday 28th May 2017.
Not sure what "3.75 East Log" means but it was written on at least three of these logs, so it must mean something! This long stack was found in Puddletown Woods, near Dorchester.
Took this scene specifically for the Little Planet treatment as the location and weather were otherwise quite disappointing. Taken whilst out and about on a planet hunt with Mia Lewis
I was first impressed and then dismayed to find that most of these logs were cut from trunks that were slightly older than me . . .
The name derives from an old folk tale which tells of a coachman whose reckless driving caused his coach to leave the old coach road to plunge into the pond in the adjacent field. He, his passengers and his horses were all drowned.
After Dorchester, a visit to National Trust Hardy's Birthplace, for Hardy's Cottage. We did not know that you had to prebook a visit to the cottage, so only saw it from the outside when we walked up the lane.
There was a Visitor Centre near the car park where you could have a drink, or an ice cream.
Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, is a small cob and thatch building that is the birthplace of the English author Thomas Hardy. He was born there in 1840 and lived in the cottage until he was aged 34—during which time he wrote the novels Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) and Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) when he left home to be married to Emma Gifford.
The cottage was built by Hardy's great-grandfather in 1800. It is now a National Trust property, and a popular tourist attraction. The property has a typical cottage garden, and the interior displays furniture which, although not from the Hardy family, is original to the period. The property is situated on the northern boundary of Thorncombe Wood.It is only three miles from Max Gate, the house that Hardy designed and lived in with Emma Gifford from 1885 until his death in 1928.
In 2012 the go ahead was given to a project to build a new visitor centre near the cottage. The project also included new trails in Thorncombe Wood. The project, which secured £525,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, was a joint partnership between Dorset County Council and the National Trust. The visitor centre opened in September 2014.
Behind Hardy's Cottage was Puddletown Forest.
fingerpost
view from Duddle Heath / Rainbarrow across the Frome Valley / Vale of the great dairies towards crossways and the Purbeck Hills, south dorset ridgeway
After Dorchester, a visit to National Trust Hardy's Birthplace, for Hardy's Cottage. We did not know that you had to prebook a visit to the cottage, so only saw it from the outside when we walked up the lane.
There was a Visitor Centre near the car park where you could have a drink, or an ice cream.
Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, is a small cob and thatch building that is the birthplace of the English author Thomas Hardy. He was born there in 1840 and lived in the cottage until he was aged 34—during which time he wrote the novels Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) and Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) when he left home to be married to Emma Gifford.
The cottage was built by Hardy's great-grandfather in 1800. It is now a National Trust property, and a popular tourist attraction. The property has a typical cottage garden, and the interior displays furniture which, although not from the Hardy family, is original to the period. The property is situated on the northern boundary of Thorncombe Wood.It is only three miles from Max Gate, the house that Hardy designed and lived in with Emma Gifford from 1885 until his death in 1928.
In 2012 the go ahead was given to a project to build a new visitor centre near the cottage. The project also included new trails in Thorncombe Wood. The project, which secured £525,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, was a joint partnership between Dorset County Council and the National Trust. The visitor centre opened in September 2014.
Behind Hardy's Cottage was Puddletown Forest.
sign - Forestry Commission England
Val's photos of the Half Marathon coming through Beacon Hill in Puddletown Forest. Photographs from a collection of photographs taken by members of Dorchester Camera Club at the first Dorchester Marathon and Half Marathon which started at Coker's Frome Dorchester on Sunday 28th May 2017.
The name derives from an old folk tale which tells of a coachman whose reckless driving caused his coach to leave the old coach road to plunge into the pond in the adjacent field. He, his passengers and his horses were all drowned.
This stone stands at the side of a minor road linking Stinsford and Tincleton 2 miles east of Dorchester. It is possibly an old boundary stone but may well be prehistoric and re-worked by the Romans when they built a road close by. It stands 5' high with a circumference of about 4'.
Val's photos of the Half Marathon coming through Beacon Hill in Puddletown Forest. Photographs from a collection of photographs taken by members of Dorchester Camera Club at the first Dorchester Marathon and Half Marathon which started at Coker's Frome Dorchester on Sunday 28th May 2017.
After Dorchester, a visit to National Trust Hardy's Birthplace, for Hardy's Cottage. We did not know that you had to prebook a visit to the cottage, so only saw it from the outside when we walked up the lane.
There was a Visitor Centre near the car park where you could have a drink, or an ice cream.
Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, is a small cob and thatch building that is the birthplace of the English author Thomas Hardy. He was born there in 1840 and lived in the cottage until he was aged 34—during which time he wrote the novels Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) and Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) when he left home to be married to Emma Gifford.
The cottage was built by Hardy's great-grandfather in 1800. It is now a National Trust property, and a popular tourist attraction. The property has a typical cottage garden, and the interior displays furniture which, although not from the Hardy family, is original to the period. The property is situated on the northern boundary of Thorncombe Wood.It is only three miles from Max Gate, the house that Hardy designed and lived in with Emma Gifford from 1885 until his death in 1928.
In 2012 the go ahead was given to a project to build a new visitor centre near the cottage. The project also included new trails in Thorncombe Wood. The project, which secured £525,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, was a joint partnership between Dorset County Council and the National Trust. The visitor centre opened in September 2014.
Behind Hardy's Cottage was Puddletown Forest.
Memorial to Thomas Hardy.
Thomas Hardy. O.M.
was born in the adjacent cottage 2nd June 1840
and in it wrote
"Under the Greenwood Tree"
and
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
This monument is erected to
his memory by a few of
his American admirers
1931