Walking Home Through The Daffodil Wood

A beautiful day, but this man and his dog were the only people I met in the wood, which in Spring is full of wild daffodils and blackbirds and these grey-trunked trees.

March 23, 2014 - Posted by Cara Lockhart Smith | Photography, Uncategorized | Coldstream, daffodils, Lennel, photograph, scottish borders, spring, walking, woods

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Walking through such a beautiful trail would really be fun, with all these flowers around, right?

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Comment by Sreejith Nair | March 23, 2014 | Reply
- Thanks for your comment, Sreejith, it is good to hear from you.The flowers that grow in the woods and in the banks round here can amze by their profusion. People in vans were at one time driving up from London to dig up the wild showdrops so as to be able to sell them in markets down there, but this was put a stop to pronto. The daffodils in this wood are true wild daffodils, apparently. Yes, I love walking through the woods. Soon it will be time for the buebells….
  
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  Comment by Cara Lockhart Smith | March 23, 2014 | Reply
  - Hope to see more images from this beautiful place 🙂
    
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    Comment by Sreejith Nair | March 23, 2014
Wonderful – a beautiful sight!

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Comment by Mary | March 24, 2014 | Reply
- Thanks you, Mary. The road in and out of Coldstream is lined with daffodils, all planted by one man, Dick. At one time the Council wanted to get rid of them because of the difficulty of mowing the verges, but there was such an outcry they decided not to mow until after the daffodil season. The flowers in the photograph are actually wild daffodils, this small wood is full of them.
  
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  Comment by Cara Lockhart Smith | March 26, 2014 | Reply

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I’m Cara, and I live in Coldstream, in the Scottish Borders As well as writing and illustrating books for children I have recently been painting on canvas, in my octagonal studio (aka The Tardis) which inhabits a corner of the vegetable garden. My work for children has been published in several countries, and translated into different languages. My favourite form at the moment is the picture book, but I have also had published poetry, children’s novels, and illustrations for the work of other authors, and have worked extensively on projects with children. I go out most days with my camera and create blog entries from the results. Some of the pictures I take will be used as background material for the picture book which I am working on at the moment. My son Matty set up this WordPress blog for me, and it has added a dimension to my life which surprises me. It is also interesting and inspiring to read the blogs of other people from different parts of the world, and to look at their sometimes fascinating pictures.

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