Woody Wednesday (19th July 2023)

It was a busy morning for Refna, tackling the rampant ivy and cutting things back, less so for me because I was mostly chatting incessantly, although I did manage a few odd jobs and made the tea.

During the morning Refna found my missing car log clipboard that had been lost since the beginning of June and thought to have been left somewhere else. Coincidentally she had found it once before, over a year ago, some time after it had gone missing. On that occasion I had driven off from Dorset with it lodged on the car roof. As it had rained heavily throughout the drive home it had adhered to the roof and remained there until she spotted it.

I noticed this willowherb that had self-seeded in a Front Yard pot. I don't know how it arrived as it is a garden first and I haven't seen any nearby. Perhaps I unwittingly brought a seed back from a canal walk? I'm glad to have it here, at any rate.

Thanks again to ApolloFly for hosting WildFlower Week.

L.
Thursday 20.7.2023 (1611 hr)

Blip #3923 (#3673 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #002
Blips/Extras In 2023 #129/265 + #069/100 Extras
Day #4861 (1128 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3063 (#2903 + 160 in archived blips)

Old Forge series
Woodland Garden
Flora series
Hotdiggity Gardens series
Wildflowers series

Taken with Pentax K-5 and Pentax  D FA Macro 100mm F2.8 WR prime lens

Woodland Garden (July 2023) (Work in progress)

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Judee Sill - Lady-O (Live at Boston Music Hall) (recorded 3 October 1971,
Boston Music Hall, Boston MA)
Judee Sill's second album was called Heart Food, which is a good description for all her output, which was soulful and full of deeply poetic and religious imagery, that of a true artist, and hard to correlate with her brief and tragic life which was filled with bad driving, drugs, crime, crippling pain, ill-health, prostitution and living rough.
This song composition marked her first exposure to the record-buying public as it had been recorded by her pals The Turtles in 1969, and she had played guitar and arranged the strings on it. Her own version followed in 1971 on her self-titled debut album on which she sang, played piano and guitar and wrote and conducted the other vocals, horn and string parts.
I recently acquired a 2CD expanded set of the two albums released in her lifetime, Judee Sill and Heart Food.  It included this acoustic set, recorded when she was supporting David Crosby and Graham Nash on tour.

One year ago:
Diary Blip