The Old Forge (Friday 10th April 2020)

I had a wander round the woodland garden this morning with the camera and took a few pictures. Later I fartnarkled a couple (another in Extras) quite severely (you can see the original here) for Flower Friday - with thanks to BikerBear for hosting.
Smokey spent another day soaking up rays on the mossy car port roof, his new favourite snoozing spot (here, as seen through the study window, and you can see the maple beginning to leaf up in the blurry foreground) - in fact he's out there again now.

L.
10.4.2020 (1938 hr)

Sharper in Large (Gallery) view

Blip #3188 (#2938 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #018
Blips/Extras In 2020 #39/265 + #025/100 Extras
Day #3668 (835 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2317 (#2158 + 159 in archived blips)

Taken with Pentax K-5 and Sigma AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro lens

Abstracts And Experiments series
Woodland Garden
Old Forge series
Gardens series
Flora series

Woodland Garden (April 2020) (Work in progress)

A Walk Around My Garden, Good Friday, 10 April 2020 (Flickr album of 14 photos)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Heavy Jelly - Take Me Down To The Water (recorded 1969)
Jackie Lomax (from The Undertakers)(vcl, gtr, pno), John Morshead (from Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation)(gtr, vcl), Alex Dmochowski (from Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation)(bass), Barry Jenkins (from The Animals)(dr, perc) and Pete Ham and Tommy Evans (from Badfinger)(bckg vcls)
After a spoof review in the London listings magazine Time Out of a fictitious band called Heavy Jelly, three groups subsequently put out records under that name. First out of the gate was I Keep Singing That Same Old Song, a great long track by 'Heavy Jelly' who were really Skip Bifferty (a stereo mix of it turned up on an Island label sampler, but the mono mix on the single favoured a thumping piano and was far superior), so the joke had worn off by the time the second 'Heavy Jelly' appeared with a full album in 1970. Test pressings failed to find favour and the album didn't appear (at least not until 1984).
This band was actually fronted by Jackie Lomax, a friend of the Beatles from Liverpool days and fresh from a solo album for Apple produced by George. Some unwritten curse constantly prevented him from the success one might argue he was entitled to, and he's best known for his single Sour Milk Sea which George had written and demoed for the White Album.
This track is to be found on CD3 of Crawling Up A Hill, which I completed playing and indexing on this day after some seven hours of work.

One Year Ago:
The Old Forge (Kerria)