Three random things
Jun. 23rd, 2014 03:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunn1) I met a tiny adder last week on the hill. He curled and hissed and darted defensively at me in a way that clearly expressed 'I am a great big snake! Fear me!' but at the same time suggested that it was trying to conceal a monumental lack of self-confidence. It was a very small adder.
2) Walking down by the river, I saw what looked like a tiny, dark-brown grizzly bear poised in the road in front of me, one paw raised in a heraldic fashion. It looked around at me, and then sprang agily up into the long grass of the bank. I think it may have been a mole.
3) My garden is hot and full of flowers, butterflies and bumblebees, and even some of that great rarity, the honeybee. I saw a fritillary this morning, although it was in too much of a hurry for me to work out which fritillary it was.
2) Walking down by the river, I saw what looked like a tiny, dark-brown grizzly bear poised in the road in front of me, one paw raised in a heraldic fashion. It looked around at me, and then sprang agily up into the long grass of the bank. I think it may have been a mole.
3) My garden is hot and full of flowers, butterflies and bumblebees, and even some of that great rarity, the honeybee. I saw a fritillary this morning, although it was in too much of a hurry for me to work out which fritillary it was.
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Date: 2014-06-23 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-23 07:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-24 10:06 am (UTC)I never have much luck with identifying fritillaries - they're always flapping by in such a tearing hurry that I get knocked over by the downdraft.
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Date: 2014-06-25 06:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-25 09:23 pm (UTC)It seems unlikely someone so widely read would not have come across the story of the Lowland Hundred and its sunken bells, but I guess a big news story can trigger new ideas!
I don't know if you know Susan Cooper at all? Her Dark is Rising series (fantasy) had several scenes in a fictional Cantref Gwaelod, and I always think of those whenever the news stories about the lost land come up.
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Date: 2014-06-25 09:38 pm (UTC)