The Woodland Garden (Tuesday 18th April 2023)

The other day when I ended up in Coate I had been heading in the direction of the Wilts and Berks in Wootton Bassett. I realised to my great surprise that it would have been my first visit of the year, so I resolved to get back there as soon as possible and seek a blip. I drove there on Tuesday afternoon, parking on the bridge at Chaddington Lane, by the entrances to the Studley Grange section of the canal to the east and back towards Templars Firs on the west side.

Comparing notes with my visit of the same time a year ago I anticipated seeing the resident mandarin duck, swans, herons, water voles, wildebeast perhaps, but all I did see were mallards, moorhens and one curious brown rat. I was only there for about fifteen minutes, but did some shopping in the town on my way home.

I decided not to use any of those few images for Blip, so fell back on some shots taken in the Woodland Garden earlier that morning, and chose instead this tulip macro.

L.
Thursday 20.4.2023 (1033 hr)

Blip #3857 (#3607 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #004
Blips/Extras In 2023 #065/266 + #043/100 Extras
Day #4770 (1172 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #2997 (#2837 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Panasonic/Leica DMC-LX100 Micro4/3 compact

Old Forge series
Flora series
Woodland Garden
Macro series
Tulips series

The Woodland Garden (April 2023) (Work in progress)

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Bo Diddley - Bring It To Jerome (recorded 14 July 1955, Universal Recording Studios, Chicago IL)
Bo Diddley (vocals, guitar), Jerome Green (vocals, maracas), Lester Davenport (harmonica), Clifton James (drums)
The post brought the new edition of Mojo, with the Velvet Underground on the cover and a companion to their music on the enclosed CD. It opened with this single by Bo Diddley, which was a big inspiration to their drummer Mo Tucker. It was on the B-side of Bo Diddley's third single, Pretty Thing, and was written by his maracas player Jerome Green, who acted as his foil on stage. From about 1950 he used to collect the money from the audience whenever Bo Diddley performed on street corners. On stage in the early 'fifties he used to play maracas made from toilet floats filled with black-eyed peas to boost the sound, but without the inconvenience of having to carry a drum kit between gigs.
This online version seems to be a longer, alternative take or edit.

One year ago:
Lacock Abbey NT (Fritillaries)