Woody Thursday (19th January 2023)

A lovely morning was spent in the Woodland Garden today. It was still below freezing when Refna cycled over, the first time I had seen her in very nearly a month thanks to Christmas and her being poorly, but it soon felt warmer in the sun and the shade temperature was up to 1.5 degrees by the time she left for lunch. We even had our tea break outside at the outbuilding patio area.

A tour of the garden showed that although there were many shoots and small buds the only things actually out were a couple of hellebores and a single snowdrop. Her main task was in sweeping up a lot of frozen leaves, just in time for the green waste bin collection tomorrow.

In Extras is a frozen bird bowl. I still await the insurance disaster team to begin restoring the damaged outbuilding, a victim of the coldest temperatures in a decade for Wiltshire.

L.
Thursday 19.1.2023 (1935 hr)

Blip #3796 (#3546 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2023 #006/265 + #002/100 Extras
Day #4681 (1144 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2937 (#2777 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Panasonic/Leica DMC-LX100 M4/3 compact

Old Forge series
Woodland Garden
Hotdiggity Gardens series
Flora series

Woodland Garden (January 2023) (Work in progress)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
The Byrds - Why (recorded 22 December 1965, RCA Studios, Hollywood CA)
Byrds: Jim McGuinn (vcl, 12-str gtr), David Crosby (vcl, rh gtr), Gene Clark (tambourine, vcl), Chris Hillman (bass, vcl), Michael Clarke (dr)
R.I.P. David Crosby (b. 14 August 1941, Los Angeles CA - 18 January 2023)
David Crosby's time with the Byrds was somewhat fractious. He was outspoken on stage and in contention with Jim (Roger) McGuinn regarding musical direction. His fate was sealed when his composition Lady Friend flopped as a single and was excluded from their following album. When the band wanted to record the commercial Goffin and King song Goin' Back he refused to participate in the recording. After being ejected from the band he was soon to find success with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash as well as becoming a solo performer.
Why  was a rare co-write with Jim McGuinn (Crosby also contributed one line to Eight Miles High) and was recorded in the studio no less than three times by the Byrds: first by their manager/producer Jim Dickson for an unreleased session while their second album was in the charts, then with producer Allen Stanton for the version recorded in January 1966 that appeared on the B-side of Eight Miles High, and then less than a month later for the album Younger Than Yesterday, an inferior version with new producer Gary Usher.
David Crosby preferred the RCA Studio Jim Dickson version posted here but it remained unreleased until the CD edition of the Never Before compilation of rarities in 1989. "It had a lot more flow to it", he said, "It was the way we wanted it to be." Roger McGuinn's 12-string Rickenbacker was played through a "walkie-talkie" speaker inside a cigar box and then heavily compressed to create sustained raga-like notes, and Chris Hillman provided loping bass lines.

One year ago:
Sells Green (Sunset)