Calne (Friday 25th July 2019)

The painting of the outbuilding was all but finished on Friday, but needs some finishing off next week so the dust sheets and work materials remain in there. I won't blip it before it's complete.
I made two trips into town on Friday and took shots on both occasions. I felt there just weren't enough bee-on-lavender shots on Blip and that I should attempt my own. The afternoon shots taken at a planter in the town centre with a DSLR and macro lens were much more successful than the morning shots in the Town Gardens with the LX100 and a close-up lens. It takes a second or more to focus that lens, whereas the amount of time a bee stays landed is slightly less. Frustrating.
I learned on the radio this morning that the reason a bee will buzz up to a flower, hover and then buzz off again, is that they can detect the residual scent of a recently visiting bee, which would tell them not to bother as there would be nothing left.
Thanks to Bikerbear for hosting Flower Friday.

L.
27.7.2019 (1853 hr)

Blip #2995 (#2745 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #002
Blips/Extras In 2019 #172/265 + #064/100 Extras
Day #3410 (762 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2139 (#1980 + 159 in archived blips)

Macro series
Calne series
Flora series

Taken with Pentax K-50 (Red) and Pentax D FA Macro 100mm F2.8 WR lens

Now complete:
Caen Hill, 21 July 2019 (Flickr album of 41 photos)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Simon and Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair/Canticle (recorded 26 July 1966, CBS Studios, New York NY)
When Paul Simon recorded this 53-years ago this day, he used a song he heard when on tour in England, as arranged by Martin Carthy, who had learned the song from a Ewan MacColl songbook. When Martin Carthy heard it and found himself not credited he would not speak to Paul Simon. Finally, in 2000, Paul Simon asked him to perform the song with him at a London gig, and he relented and did the show. In the July 2011 edition of Mojo, Paul Simon said "The version I was playing was definitely what I could remember of Martin's version, but he didn't teach it to me. Really, it was just naivety on my part that we didn't credit it as his arrangement of a traditional tune. I didn't know you had to do that. Then later on, Martin's publisher contacted me and we made a pretty substantial monetary settlement that he was supposed to split with Martin, But unbeknown to me, Martin got nothing."
According to liner notes in Electric Muse, Scarborough Fair is "An ancient song, even older than the Fair in the title, which was last held in the Yorkshire seaside town in 1788. It's a version of the second ballad in Child's collection, usually known as The Elfin Knight from the oldest known version of this riddle song found bound at the end of a book printed in Edinburgh in 1673 and rescued by Sir Richard Maitland. Baring Gould found a version being played as a children's game, itself an indication of ancient, possibly prehistoric lineage". The fair lasted 45 days and started every August 15th.
In Medieval times, the herbs parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme represented virtues that were referenced in the lyrics. Parsley was comfort; sage was strength; rosemary was love and thyme was courage.
Before Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan had used the lines, "Remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine" in his 1963 song Girl From The North Country.
The Canticle part of the piece is a reworked version of The Side Of a Hill originally from The Paul Simon Songbook, a 1965 UK album of his solo demos, and contained implied anti-Viet Nam war messages. Scarborough Fair was released as a single in 1968, because it was used in the soundtrack of The Graduate.