Flower Friday (9th June 2023)

A fly has penetrated the very centre of the Woodland Garden where this light-deprived rose has fought its way up.

L.
Tuesday 13.6.2023 (1755 hr)

Blip #3902 (#3652 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #010
Blips/Extras In 2023 #110/265 + #062/100 Extras
Day #4822 (1109 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3042 (#2882 + 160 in archived blips)

Old Forge series
Woodland Garden
Flora series
Roses series

Woodland Garden (June 2023) (work in progress)

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

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Emmeline - Small-Town Girl (2023)
Hot Chocolate's song Emma, yesterday's LOTD, was about a character called Emmeline who committed suicide when she realised her dreams of being a movie star were not going to be realised. This fate is unlikely to be that of this Emmeline, a "West Yorkshire-born, London-based artist. With a poet/playwright father and a radio dramatist mother, Emmeline has been surrounded by storytelling, art and culture her whole life. She trained with the Royal Exchange in Manchester and the National Youth Theatre in London before joining the spoken word collective Young Identity in 2017. The last year has been something of a whirlwind year for the 22 year old, who after plucking up the courage to ask for feedback on some demos from producer Fraser T Smith (Dave, Adele, Stormzy) at a gig, then went on to work with him on her debut EP, Satellite Navigation System, and also complete her English masters in Creative Writing from Oxford University." (Record Of The Day).
I heard this track and an interview with Emmeline, a slam poet, singer and actress on Cerys Matthew's show at the weekend. Emmeline won the 2017 SLAMbassadors national youth poetry slam for 13-18-year-olds. To her credit none of the potted biographies I have read about her online mention that her poet/playwright father is the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.

One year ago:
Abstract Thursday