The Old Forge (Wednesday 30th October 2019)

It was a rather cold and colourless day on Gardening Wednesday, which was a shame because I'd decided to blip the magnificent autumn colours of the cotinus that now dominates the view of the woodland garden, but I attempted the shot anyway. If we ever get a sunny day I may try again. It was visible in the blurry background of Tuesday's diary blip.

Gardening Wednesday involved more bulb planting and sorting plants in pots from Refna, and replenishing and overhauling of the feeders by me.

L.
30.10.2019 (1723 hr)

Blip #3076 (#2826 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #010
Blips/Extras In 2019 #253/265 + #090/100 Extras
Day #3505 (778 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2205 (#2046 + 159 in archived blips)

Old Forge series
Autumn series
Cotinus series
Flora series
Gardens series
Leaves series
Textures and Colours series

Taken with Pentax K-1 Mark II and Pentax HD P-D FA 28-105mm f/3.5-5.6ED DC WR lens

Woodland Garden (September-October 2019)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love (recorded 3 November 1966, RCA Studios, Hollywood CA)
Jefferson Airplane: Grace Slick (vcl, organ, recorder), Marty Balin (gtr, vcl), Paul Kantner (rh gtr), vcl, Jorma Kaukonen (ld gtr, vcl), Jack Casady (bass), Spencer Dryden (dr, perc)
Grace Slick was born on this day in 1939, in Highland Park IL, which means she is 80 years old now, but when she joined the Airplane in 1966 she was a wild child of 27, one of the major movers and shakers of the sixties musical scene. She had come from a group called the Great Society that included her husband Jerry Slick, a cinematographer, on drums and Jerry's brother Darby Slick on lead guitar.
It was Darby Slick who wrote Somebody To Love, originally under the title Mind Full of Bread, completing it in 1965 after he had ended a relationship.
The group went to Golden State Recorders and recorded several tracks under the supervision of Sly Stewart (soon to be founding Sly and the Family Stone). One single emerged from the demos, and Someone To Love, as it was then known, was released as a single on the North Beach label. It made little impact at the time, but when Grace Slick brought the song, along with White Rabbit, to the Jefferson Airplane when she joined the band it became a top ten hit on the national charts in 1967 and brought her a worldwide audience.