The Old Forge (Monday 12th October 2020)

One of the casualties of all the work done on the outbuilding was that the Boston Ivy that had spread around all four walls had to be cut down. It had been given to me by C. back in the early nineties.
More recently I replaced it, planting the new one on the opposite outbuilding wall, beside the patio. I also planted a Virginia Creeper on the wall facing the driveway at the same time. Both have taken, and the young Boston Ivy has been gradually creeping up the wall, and has now turned into this glorious Autumnal colour.

L.
13.10.2020 (1536 hr)

Blip #3315 (#3065 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #002
Blips/Extras In 2020 #167/266 + #064/100 Extras
Day #3852 (789 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2460 (#2301 + 159 in archived blips)

Old Forge series
Woodland Garden
Boston Ivy and Virginia Creeper series
Flora series
Leaves series

Taken with Pentax K-1 Mark II and Pentax HD P-D FA 28-105mm f/3.5-5.6ED DC WR lens

Woodland Garden (September-October 2020) (Flickr album)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (1982)
It has always struck me as curious that Sylvia Robinson has been so overlooked in the pantheon of musical history considering her contributions in the fields of fifties R&B up to eighties hip-hop, so I was surprised and delighted to find in the Radio Four schedules a programme called I Was Sylvia Robinson's Chief Recording Engineer.
Starting out with session guitarist Mickey Baker, they made their mark with Love Is Strange, a much covered single for which they wrote the lyrics (Bo Diddley got the credit). They were behind Ike and Tina Turner's hit I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine in 1961, in which Mickey Baker played the vocal part of Ike Turner (much as he had spoken on Love Is Strange). Sylvia Robinson's production and musical direction again went uncredited. "I paid for the session, taught Tina the song; that's me playing guitar", she said later.
She set up All Platinum Studios in Engelwood NJ in the seventies and had success as Sylvia with her single Pillow Talk and was behind Shirley & Co's 1975 hit Shame, Shame, Shame. She virtually created hip-hop when in the late seventies she heard some kids rapping in the street, which led to The Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight in 1979, and by 1982 was responsible for the groundbreaking The Message and White Lines. Quite a pioneer, and one whose name should be better known.