The sheep have been turned out to graze...

...to tidy up these unforgotten fields ready for next years grass...
Thanks to BobsBlips for WidWed:Animals today ;) 

Thanks for all your MonoMonday entries this week – over 100 of you grappled with the unfocussed theme, for which I take no credit or blame...  I think most people found it a real challenge!
 I really enjoyed looking at the work of Bill Armstrong and Olga Karlovac  - sadly I couldn’t quite recreate their artistry, but I thought the following did a great job of being unfocussed:
Carol's garden through the window
Serious Frolic's shopping centre blur
AnnieMay's focussed worker!
Hermione's eye by Mrs Linda
ChrisF's drive-by fields
Nanzy's hands
Inverculain's duck
Mono hearts will be delivered ASAP!

Next week’s MonoMonday info:
2nd Nov -Shape & Form in the Landscape: Curves and Circles  
Host: KangaZu
Inspirational photographer: Verity Milligan,   Have fun!

CORONA CLASSICS - It don't mean a thing - Duke Ellington

Another for Black History Month from Dolly.  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899 – 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than six decades.

Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s onward and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. He was widely considered a pivotal figure in the history of jazz.   A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format, Ellington wrote more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, and many of his pieces have become standards. His reputation continued to rise after he died, and he was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Award for music in 1999.

From me today  – another from Thomas Newman - Piano Concerto No. 6 (The "Blossoms" Suite)