The Old Forge (Wednesday 24th October 2018)

Refna was working for the neighbours this morning and came over at lunchtime for Gardening Wednesday for a couple of hours work. There were a lot of jobs needed as most recent weeks have been devoted to painting the outbuilding and its fences, so she was busy tending to plants, putting fuchsias into pots ready for winter and moving the medlar to a better spot.
I, on the other hand, was still busy with Decorating Wednesday, and was adding grey satinwood paint to parts of the outbuilding plus a second coat to the doorframes, and continued for an hour or so after she had gone.
The light was going by the time I got to photograph the outbuilding wall and I had to use fill-in flash, creating the odd double-image effect. The blip shows the fuchsia pots and a section of new grey painting.
The small window above the young Victoria plum in a whisky barrel shows the colour I tried to match with the iris-coloured panels I blipped last week.

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24.10.2018 (2200 hr)

Blip #2784 (#2534 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.60-18.3.10)
Consecutive Blip #007
Blips/Extras In 2018 #226/265 + #73/100 Extras)
Day #3135 (610 gaps from 26.3.10)
LOTD #1926 (#1767 + 159 in archived blips)

Old Forge series
Diary Blip series
Flora series

Taken with Panasonic/Leica DMC-LX100 M4/3 compact

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Tony Joe White - Steamy Windows (recxorded 1991, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio)
R.I.P. Tony Joe White (23 July 1943, Oak Grove LA - 24 October 2018, Nashville TN)
Tony Joe White (vocal, guitars, harmonica, Whomper, swamp box) with Steve Nathan (keyboards), Spooner Oldham (Wurlitzer piano), Harvey Thompson (horns), David Hood (bass), Roger Hawkins (drums), Mickey Buckins (percussion)
Tony Joe White was widely regarded quite rightly as the real king of the swamp and had a long successful recording career, best known for his early hit Polk Salad Annie, which was covered by Elvis Presley, but also wrote Rainy Night In Georgia for Brook Benton, later recorded by Gladys Knight and the Pips, and of course Steamy Windows for Tina Turner in 1989. His own version was made a couple of years later for the album Closer to the Truth.


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The Old Forge