The Difficult Third Album

Today's image was taken on a micro trip back to Teston Bridge Country Park (see previous blip 3rd November 2020). Thankfully nearly all of the fences, machinery and dirt had gone this time but the 3.5 metre wide track still disfigures the surface of the meadow.
Today's shot is of Viscum Album - a species of mistletoe, commonly known as European mistletoe, most often found in the crowns of broad-leaved trees, particularly apple, lime, hawthorn and poplar and is a hemiparasite which draws its water and nutrients from its host tree. I found it difficult to get a good image and this was my third attempt, hence the title. I've probably overstretched the metaphor a bit there! :-)
Mistletoe has a significant role in European mythology, legends and customs and in modern times is featured in Christmas decoration and symbology (I'm sure we all know the most common one!)

Of course it's also a term that relates to music and this was my favourite explanation that I found online:

Cliches exist because more often than not they are true. That plus the fact that we love to speak in metaphor, saying things such as “I know that place like the back of my hand,” which conveys that we have an intimate knowledge of a particular place, instead of just matter of factly saying, “I know that place well”.
In Rock N’ Roll circles one of the most common cliches is that your third album is the most difficult one. Speaking as a bystander I would think that such a thing would be true. After all, keeping with the theme of cliches here, “You have your whole life to write your first album.” So the first one is generally bursting with a lifetime’s experience and expression. A second album will often have been comprised of songs not used on the first album, and perhaps a few new ones. But by the third album, the well is dry, the box is empty, the screen is blank, the songwriter in the band may as well be Waiting for Godot, if Godot in this case were the gift of illumination and expression.

I'm pretty sure we've all bought one of those albums at one time or another and instantly regretted it!