Woody Wednesday (17th May 2023)

The compost I bought on Tuesday was put to good use the following day with a lot of re-potting and topping up going on. The two magnolias in the patio area suffered badly from the late frosts and the camellia in the Front Yard may be on the way out following being under an inch of ice earlier during winter. It has been dropping leaves despite a lot of attention from Refna this year. The three acer saplings that overwintered in the porch were declared officially dead.

The Extra shows a view of the Driveway Patch which has really burst into life.

It was a day in which a lot of different things happened at the same time: people from the insurers finally came to remove all the written-off items from the outbuilding, so the next stage will be the reinstatements. My dispute with the catastrophically awful Br*t*sh G*s was unsatisfactorally resolved, without any further compensation. My first postal delivery in seven days brought a heap of outstanding items, including some meds, and I rang the BMW dealership and paid the deposit on the electric Mini Cooper, which all being well should be handed over on May 25th!

L.
Friday 19.5.2023 (1207 hr)

Blip #3880 (#3630 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #002
Blips/Extras In 2023 #088/266 + #054/100 Extras
Day #4799 (1108 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3020 (#2860 + 160 in archived blips)

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

Old Forge series
Flora series
Woodland Garden
Wide Angle series

Woodland Garden (May 2023)   (Flickr album)(Work in progress)

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Everything Is Everything - Witchi Tai To (1968)
Witchi Tai To was derived from a peyote song of the Native American Church which its composer Jim Pepper had learned from his grandfather. Jim Pepper was a singer and jazz saxophonist of Kaw and Muscogee Creek Native American heritage who had moved to New York NY in 1964. Everything Is Everything was Jim Pepper, Chris Hills, Lee Reinoehl, Chip Baker, John Waller and Jim Zitro, and Witchi Tai To  was the only hit to feature an authentic Native American chant in the history of the Billboard pop charts, and has been covered by surpringly many other artists including Harper's Bizarre (whose version was chosen by David Holmes for Sunday's Nemone programme Journeys On Sound), Jan Garbarek, Ralph Towner, Pete Wyoming Bender, Brewer & Shipley and Larry Smith (under the pseudonym of Topo D Bill). A version recorded by The Supremes in 1969 was unreleased at the time. I used to have the vinyl single on the Vanguard label and heard it on the radio again more recently on Brian Matthew's Sounds Of The Sixties.

One year ago:
Bowerhill