Thursday, 18 July 2013

The Dragonfly

It is turning out to be a wonderful year for dragonflies, damselflies and butterflies. Looking around for the text of Tennyson's poem The Dragonfly, I chanced across this beautiful blog:

See also Simon Barnes's article in Saturday's Times: 'A bevy of damsels with no signs of distress':

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/simonbarnes/article3815606.ece

The banks of my local river (more like a canal really) are thick with willow-herb and fluttering with hedge browns and small tortoiseshells, more than I've seen for many years.  Perhaps nature isn't giving up the struggle yet.

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