The Front Yard (Friday 3rd May 2024)

Here is Monday's Queen Of Night tulip again, now going over and freshly decorated with last night's and today's rain, for Flower Friday, with thanks to BikerBear.

P.S. This image got picked for Flickr's Explore award and has received thousands of views.

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Friday 3.5.2024 (1820 hr)

Blip #4078 (#3828 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2024 #062/266 + #019/100 Extras
Day #5152 (1267 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3217 (#3057 + 160 in archived blips)

Woodland Garden
Flora series
Front Yard series
Macro series
Tulips series
Old Forge series


Taken with Pentax K-5 and Pentax  D FA Macro 100mm F2.8 WR prime lens

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Anne Briggs - The Cruel Mother (1971)
The death of the great Duane Eddy meant that I had to replace the LOTD for 30th April. Therefore the previous posting for that day now appears here.
Continuing in a folkie vein after Friday's LOTD this is a much more traditional version of a folk song popular since the middle ages, recorded previously by the likes of Judy Collins, Ewan McColl, Joan Baez, Steeleye Span, and Bonnie Dobson. 
This is my pick from Sunday's Cerys Matthews Show, played as one of four previously unreleased tracks, discovered on a reel-to-reel tape, to be included on the deluxe reissue of 1971’s superb Anne Briggs  this year. The Cruel Mother is a take on the dark English murder ballad, with Anne Briggs accompanying herself on gently picked guitar, far too good to have been lost for this long.
Anne Briggs began singing in local folk clubs in her teens. In 1962, she became part of the Centre 42 - a leftist group of artists, writers, actors and musicians whose aim was to make arts and culture accessible to the masses. Ewan MacColl first heard her remarkable voice and persuaded her to join the group and tour. There she met MacColl's comrade, A.L. 'Bert' Lloyd who became her mentor, producing her debut EP, The Hazards Of Love, and recording her for landmark albums, The Iron Muse  and The Bird In The Bush. She retired from music a couple of years later, not resurfacing until the mid 1990's to perform briefly with her friend Bert Jansch for a TV documentary and then disappeared from public life completely.

One year ago:
Calne Town Gardens