Flower Friday (2nd August 2024)

The current climate is not suitable for fair-skinned ginger-haired people such as myself, so apart from venturing into my very shady garden on occasion I have mostly been confined to my cool, stone-walled house.

This morning though I had to go to Chippenham for a retinal screening and as it wasn't safe to drive for a while I did a grocery shop afterwards and bought some food. When vision was restored sufficiently to be able to easily read a magazine I drove back via my open-air 'office' opposite Maud Heath's Causeway at Kellaways, where I had my picnic.

I walked down a narrow steep path to the River Avon where I found these purple loosestrife wildflowers (Lythrum salicaria), suitable for Wild Flower Week and Flower Friday, with thanks to Miranda1008 and BikerBear.

There are three Avons that cross Wiltshire: the Bristol Avon, running from Acton Turville, S Gloucs, to Avonmouth; the Salisbury Avon, running from Pewsey, Wilts to Christchurch, Dorset and the Tetbury Avon (also called Little Avon), a tributary of the Bristol Avon. This is the Bristol Avon, that runs through Chippenham.

A view of the stone steps to another footpath, the bridge and a section of the Causeway is in Extras (and includes a glimpse of Buzz - not blocking the road as it appears but actually in a lay-by).

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Wednesday 2.8.2024 (1826 hr)

Blip #4133 (#3883 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2024 #117/266 + #049/100 Extras
Day #5242 (1303 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3272 (#3112 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Panasonic/Leica DC-LX100M2 Micro 4/3rds

Kellaways series
Maud Heath series
Outdoor Places I Have Sat In series
River series
River Avon (Bristol) series

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
June Tabor & Oysterband - The Dark End of the Street (recorded February-April 2011)
James Carr was the first to record this song by renowned songwriter Dan Penn and session guitarist Chips Moman, in December 1966 at Royal Studios, Memphis TN for Goldwax Records. Since then every singer of worth has interpreted the song: Aretha Franklin, Gram Parsons, Linda Thompson, Cat Power, Percy Sledge and many others. Until this week one version I had never heard was this fabulous collaboration between the peerless June Tabor and Oysterband, with whom she had made an album 21 years earlier. They reunited to record the album Ragged Kingdom and tour together in 2011, and closed their album of traditional tunes and contemporary covers with this.