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Ullswater

Walked on 28/03/2012

It was gorgeous in the Lakes today, 20C once more and I stopped when I was passing through to take a few photos of the area on a glorious spring day.

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Ullswater and the jetty made famous in the 'Athena' poster from the '80's.

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A whole host of golden Daffodils.

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Place Fell.

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Birkhouse Moor.

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These are the real Wordsworth Daffodils, made famous in the 1804 poem 'Daffodils': "Daffodils" (1804) I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. That's how I felt when I saw them in the sunshine!

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The Duke of Portland Boathouse reflected.

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A perfectly calm Ullswater...

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...until the steamer arrived.

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