The Front Yard (Thursday 14th September 2023)

I planned to photograph this Fuji Cherry (Kojo-no-mai') to show off its autumnal shades of orange and red foliage. Unfortunately I left it too late to take the picture and just took it after dark, using flash. It seems to have lost the shades I was admiring, either because of the flash or perhaps I've placed it facing the wrong way! Might try again in natural light soon.

L.
Thursday 14.9.2023 (2029 hr)

Blip #3956 (#3706 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #005
Blips/Extras In 2023 #162/265 + #082/100 Extras
Day #4919 (1153 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3096 (#2936 + 160 in archived blips)

Flora series
Front Yard series
Woodland Garden


Woodland Garden (August-October 2023) (Work in progress)

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

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Led Zeppelin - Whole lotta love (recorded live, 1 April 1971, 2100-2245 hr, Paris Theatre, London)
Led Zeppelin: Robert Plant (vcl), Jimmy Page (el gtr, vcl), John Paul Jones (bass, pno, org, vcl), John Bonham (dr, perc)
This recording comes from my most recent acquisition, Led Zeppelin - The Complete BBC Sessions, a 3CD set that I've been studying. The BBC had the band in for sessions for John Peel, the World Service and other Radio One shows from the beginning and also for the very first live show in 1969 that later became the In Concert series. By 1971 they were the biggest group on the planet and this very intimate concert to a few hundred people was a massive thankyou to the BBC by the band. The studio version of this came from Led Zeppelin II  in 1969, adapted from the Small Faces recording You Need Loving, who in turn had adapted it from Muddy Waters' You Need Love, written by his musical director and stand-up bass player Willie Dixon. Live it had grown into a massive show piece interpolating snippets from a number of tunes including John Lee Hooker's Boogie Chillun, Bukka White's Fixin' To Die, Arthur Crudup's That's All Right Mama and Elvis Presley's A Mess Of Blues. Excised from this performance on CD for copyright reasons are seven minutes of For What It's Worth, Trucking Little Mama and Honey Bee. To me, it doesn't sound over 50 years old.


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Keevil's Weir