Nature Notes 5

This one isn’t quite nature, I know, but a photo text nonetheless.  I produced this for a blog post on Tennyson and our family connections, the discovery of which kindled an interest in his work.  Just about everyone knows the old parlour song Come Into the Garden, Maud but do they know that it is part of an epic love poem?  These few lines appear earlier in Maud and brought out the old romantic in me…  As the poem progresses love changes to infatuation, jealousy and death.   Oh well, what would you expect from the Victorians…