The Woodland Garden (Sunday 28th February 2021)

I noticed on Saturday that the blossom on my plum was opening, so put it in the Blip bank for another day.

I remember that last year the fierce winds and storms we had meant that it only had a very brief life and left a confetti of white all over the garden, so I made it my Blip the very next day.

L.
01.3.2021 (1644 hr)

Blip #3374 (#3124 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #003
Blips/Extras In 2021 #030/266 + #015/100 Extras
Day #3991 (872 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2517 (#2358 + 159 in archived blips)

Old Forge series
Woodland Garden
Flora series
Blossom series
Spring series

Taken with Pentax K-50 (Red) and Pentax HD P-DA 55-300 mm F4-5.8 ED WR lens

Woodland Garden (January-February 2021) (Flickr album of 34 images)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Lost Horizons featuring Ural Thomas - In Quiet Moments (2021)
I heard this a couple of times on Radio 6 during the weekend on Cerys Matthews and Radcliffe and Maconie shows, so it chose itself.
"Sometimes you just have a clear vision for a song and then try as you might, it doesn’t quite hit the mark and other times, you’re not quite sure where it’s going and then all of sudden it’s like The Matrix and you’re buzzing! I’d been talking to Ural and his team since I heard about him earlier that year, and they were all working on a new Ural Thomas and The Pain album, but just as I finished the bass part on our piece, which Richie had started at a session in London, my inner voice was screaming “ASK URAL TO SING!” Scott and Brent who are his producers and write with Ural and in his band too, responded very positively to my enquiry and said Ural was into it, and it looked like they could do it all at their studio in Portland AND film him at the same time as they were making a documentary about him! I couldn’t believe my luck. After he was done with the first half of the song I asked if he could make the ending spoken-word in the style of Gil Scott-Heron and he did something ad-libbed which I loved. I then asked Wendi Rose who sings with Spiritualized to add some of her beautiful vocals and I think this took it all to the next level. Paul Gregory and Jonathan Wilson also played some delicious guitar parts which were the fairy dust on top! - Simon Raymonde of Lost Horizons
When I first heard the song, I thought it was such a wonderful thing, both open and calm, with that steady, insistent groove. The chords go from looming to embracing then back again, like a sad, friendly giant. It took a quiet moment to go over it in my mind and then we were off and running with the tune. At times I feel strong and one with the world.  At other times I feel tiny and solitary.  In a way they’re two parts of the same feeling. That sense of being closed in and defined by walls became more real just a short while after we worked on the song.  But we’re all those other things, too—connected, hopeful, with a long arc that will go beyond this time. - Ural Thomas

One year ago:
Calne Town Gardens