Marlborough (Sunday 24th April 2022)

I ended up in the Waterfront Gardens on Sunday, after a Waitrose shopping trip. It was my first visit since December, to my surprise, and of course looked completely different. One of the residents, Val, tends to it on behalf of Wiltshire Council (I think, unless it's the town council) and does an amazing job. Recently she posted some pictures of water voles, who have returned to the River Kennet there after an absence of some years, but they hadn't come out to play.

L.
Wednesday 27.4.2022 (2115 hr)

Blip #3640 (#3390 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #029
Blips/Extras In 2022 #078/265 + #029/100 Extras
Day #4415 (1029 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2784 (#2624 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Pentax K-1 Mark II and Pentax HD P-DA 55-300 mm F4-5.8 ED WR lens

Marlborough series
Marlborough Waterfront Gardens series
Gardens series
Flora series

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Pentangle - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (recorded live, 29 June 1968, Royal Albert Hall, London)
This was written in 1959 by Charles Mingus who wrote it as an elegy for the saxophonist Lester Young, who had died two months earlier. He modified his broad-brimmed pork pie hats from hats that were more like Homburgs. I've acquired a few versions of this over the years: Ralph Towner, Big Band Charlie Mingus, Charles Mingus and the Mingus Band, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, Gil Evans, Jeff Beck and a vocal version by Joni Mitchell. I hadn't however heard this live version by Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox as played by Guy Garvey on the car radio on this afternoon.