The Front Yard (Sunday 10th March 2024)

I almost blipped this tulip pot yesterday, but it ended up as an Extra, so here it is today with added raindrops.

This morning I took a short stroll into Calne and back as I was out of bread (2,184 steps). Lots of daffodils in people's front gardens, some wild lungwort and pansies growing in the pavement. Almost sunny, but quite cold.

L.
Sunday 10.3.2024 (2022 hr)

Blip #4048 (#3798 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #005
Blips/Extras In 2024 #032/266 + #010/100 Extras
Day #5099 (1243 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3187 (#3027 + 160 in archived blips)

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

Woodland Garden (March 2024) (Work in progress)

Taken with Pentax K-50 (Red) and Sigma AF 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC Macro HSM lens

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Beach Boys - Caroline, No (recorded 31 March 1966, Hollywood CA)
Unlike most of Pet Sounds, Brian Wilson's is the only voice on this song, and in fact it first appeared as a solo single, credited only to Brian Wilson. Two months later it was on the Beach Boys album. It had been re-edited so that it ended with some sound effects: the barking of Brian Wilson's dogs Banana (a beagle) and Louie (a Weimaraner) and a passing locomotive train (sampled from a 1963 effects album).
The words to Caroline, No were inspired by a past girlfriend of the song's lyricist Tony Asher who was named Carol Amen and was meant to be called Carol, I Know, but was misheard by Brian Wilson as Caroline, No, inspiring a revised lyric.
My copy included a stereo mix, and a DVD with an audio surround sound mix that I had never heard because I didn't have the facility to play it until many years later. This is now the case with many other DVDs and SACDs in my collection, so I now have yet another backlog. However I did listen to the album tonight in 5.1 surround sound and it did sound really good. The Doppler effect of the train as it approaches a railway crossing was very effective. In the stereo mix these sound effects were left in mono.
Brian Wilson is deaf in one ear so his own mixes were always originally in mono, but stereo mixes have subsequently been prepared under his licence.

One year ago:
Flower Friday (Plum blossom)