Flower Friday (Friday 6th August 2021)

It had been a few days since I had been around the Woodland Garden with a camera, in fact it was the first time I'd picked up a camera at all since Saturday, and there had been some changes there, with different plants in the Front Yard coming to the fore including some hydrangeas. In the Woodland Garden a heuchera had come into flower, there were apples on the whisky-tubbed bramley in the patio and lots of bunches of grapes on the vine. Although from the front the cotinus remains majestically purple, I was surprised to see how green the undersides had become.

Refna had been absent for two previous weeks due to excessive heat one week and heavy rain the next, but was here again for Woody Wednesday when she had cut back the 'cloud' and pruned this massive buddleia on the Driveway Patch amongst other things.

Friday 6.8.2021 (1319 hr)

Blip #3496 (#3246 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2022 #151/266 + #080/100 Extras
Day #4152 (910 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2639 (#2439 + 160 in archived blips)

Old Forge series
Woodland Garden
Flora series
Driveway series

In The Woodland Garden, 6 August 2021 (Flickr album of 25 photos)(Work in progress)

The Woodland Garden (August 2021) (Flickr album)(Work in progress)

Taken with Pentax K-50 (Red) and Sigma AF 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC Macro HSM lens

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
George Harrison - Wah-Wah (2020 Mix) (recorded May 1969, Abbey Road Studios, with overdubs added August 1969)
There was a lot of reverb all over All Things Must Pass thanks to Phil Spector when it was first released, and today a new remix is released, created from the original tapes by Dhani Harrison and Giles Martin, made possible by the latest technology, that has a cleaner sound and with George Harrison's vocal less buried in the mix. I listened to most of the new versions of the original first two discs on You Tube this morning.

George Harrison wrote Wah-Wah during his temporary departure from the Beatles in January 1969, with lyrics expressing his frustration at Paul McCartney's bossiness and the overall group atmosphere. Wah-Wah was the first track taped for All Things Must Pass. The recording features a a large cast of musicians including Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, the band Badfinger,  Gary Wright on keyboards, Bobby Whitlock on electric piano, the former Delaney and Bonnie horn section of Jim Price and Bobby Keys, bassist Klaus Voormann and Ringo Starr on drums.

Overdubs were carried out at Abbey Road and Trident Studios without Spector's assistance, and completed by 12 August. Spector then made suggestions for each song; in the case of Wah-Wah, these included the addition of a saxophone solo by Bobby Keys. As well as overdubbing his slide guitar solos, Harrison sang all the various vocal parts, named as the George O'Hara-Smith Singers on the record sleeve.