The Woodland Garden (Saturday 30th January 2021)

If I had taken any photographs from the Town Gardens yesterday I probably would have blipped a small bunch of snowdrops I found growing at the base of a silver birch. This morning I slipped out in the rain to blip some polyanthuses that had come up recently in the Woodland Garden. They were looking a bit bedraggled (in Extras) but nearby I found a bigger, better bunch of snowdrops growing in the circular central bed, all the better from being on my own property.

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30.1.2021 (1402 hr)

Blip #3357 (#3107 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #003
Blips/Extras In 2021 #014/265 + #004/100 Extras
Day #3962 (860 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2500 (#2341 + 159 in archived blips)

Diary Blip series
Old Forge series
Woodland Garden
Flora series

Taken with Pentax K-x (White) and Pentax smc P-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL II kit lens

Woodland Garden (January-February 2021) (Flickr album)(Work in progress)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
The Animals - Baby Let Me Take You Home (recorded 12 February 1964, Kingsway, London)
R.I.P. Hilton Valentine (21 May 1943, North Shields to 29 January 2021, Connecticut)
Baby Let Me Take You Home, credited to Bert Russell (Bert Berns) and Wes Farrell, is an arrangement of Eric Von Schmidt's rendering of Baby, Let Me Follow You Down as covered by Bob Dylan, on his album Bob Dylan. American soul singer Hoagy Lands had recorded the Russell/Farrell song as Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand  earlier in 1964.
The Animals' version was their debut single and opens with some striking unaccompanied guitar arpeggios by Hilton Valentine, inserts a middle eight with spoken words over Alan Price's organ riff and closes with a frantic double-time coda. The result was a key influence on Dylan's change to electric music and to the folk-rock genre.
Hilton Valentine was also credited with the famous electric guitar arpeggio introduction to their arrangement of The House Of The Rising Sun in 1964, played on his Gretsch Tennessean guitar. He was with the Animals until their dissolvement in September 1966.