Honeyball (Saturday 18th March 2017)

The Honeyball recycling centre is situated next to Hills' gravel pit workings and these come into view as you climb up the steps to tip your rubbish into their giant skips. I see it as a kind of reward, as you get a view of greater black-backed gulls, herring gulls, black-headed gulls and any assorted other birds that happen to be there.

I've made a number of trips there with trailer-loads of green waste thanks to R.'s hard work clearing the forest garden, including a few in the last few days as the trailer was out of action for a while in the New Year, with a flat tyre.

When I last went there on Saturday, I drove on to Hills Pools, beside a cycleway a mile or so further on, where I found some Canada geese, swans and tufted ducks, so I've put a pair of swans in Extras.

L.
20.3.2017 (1155 hr)

Blip #2053 (#2303 including 250 archived blips)
Consecutive Blip #002
Blips/Extras In 2017 #084
Day #2550 (511 gaps from 26 March 2010)
LOTD #1288 (#1414 including 126 on archived blips)

Landscape series
Honeyball series

Taken with Pentax K-50 (Red) and Pentax HD P-DA 55-300mm F4-5.8 ED WR lens

A Trip To Lower Compton, 18 March 2017 (Flickr album of 10 images)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Emmylou Harris and the Hot Band - You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie) (recorded live, TV Theatre, Shepherd's Bush, London, 12 April 1977)
Emmylou Harris (vcl, ac gtr), Albert Lee (el gtr), Glen D Hardin (pno), Rodney Crowell (gtr), Hank Devito (pdl stl gtr), Emory Gordy (bass), John Ware (dr), 
R.I.P. Chuck Berry (18 October 1926, St Louis MO - 18 March 2017, St Charles MO)
As long as I've loved rock and roll I've loved Chuck Berry and used to buy his singles on the Pye International label in the sixties. He fused so many styles of music into his sound, labelled at the time as Rhythm and Blues although it was far more sophisticated and varied than that implies, both musically and lyrically, opening the way for a new breed of musical poets such as Bob Dylan.
Since his death at the age of 90 the radio has quite rightly been full of his music and heartfelt tributes from other artists. I have pondering which of his many, many records to choose, but in the end decided to choose how his music was taken up by other artists. Emmylou Harris's version was a single from her album Luxury Liner and follows Chuck Berry's 1964 single's arrangement quite closely, showing the country side of his music. Glen D Hardin's piano here is note for note a match for Johnnie Johnson's on the original.
I was in the audience for this wonderful performance recorded for The Old Grey Whistle Test.

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