Apple Tree #9

This is the apple tree in next door's garden, as seen from my front bedroom window, not to be confused with the russet growing in my own garden. I used to photograph it regularly between 2010-2014, having first blipped it 1992, but this is its first reappearance since then, and it has subsequently been tended by Hotdiggity Gardens.
I used a slowish shutter speed in the hope of capturing some of the rainfall, but it doesn't seem to show. The crane I almost blipped on Saturday puts in an appearance in the background.

L.
6.8.2019 (1749 hr)

Blip #3003 (#2753 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2019 #180/265 + #067/100 Extras
Day #3420 (764 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2147 (#1988 + 159 in archived blips)

Apple Tree series
Trees series
Flora series


Taken with Pentax KS-1 (Blue) and Pentax smc P-DA* 55mm F1.4 SDM lens

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Marvin Gaye - At Last (I Found A Love) (completed 9 October 1967, Hitsville/Golden World Studios, Detroit MI)
There are some big Motown hits that get incessantly played on radio stations, whilst literally thousands of other gems never get aired. At the same time, there are vaults full of material that was not released at the time but has been gradually released over the decades, with much more yet to come. This track was released, on the album In The Groove (later retitled I Heard It On The Grapevine) and on the B-side of the single Chained, so the chances are most people will never have heard it on the radio. The mono B-side mix was included on a Mojo CD, Motown Nuggets, that I listened to again today. The backing on this track is by the Funk Brothers, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Gladys Knight and the Pips. Edwin Starr recorded the song on his album War And Peace in 1969.
"By 1967 Marvin Gaye was embarking on a long string of duet hits with the doomed Tammi Terrell, yet the singer was still recording cherishable solo tracks, albeit intermittently, although they were overlooked at the time. Just like At Last, co-written by Gaye, his wife Anna and friend Elgie Stover, two minutes 36 seconds of bright and optimistic fingerpoppin' soul-gospel, like an updated Hitch Hike collided with Stubborn Kind Of Fellow." - Mojo, Feb 2009, Motown Nuggets CD compilation



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