This is an extremely rare sight in the British countryside today, thousands upon thousands of orchids in a traditional hay meadow. It’s not that hard to do, just lightly graze with cattle or sheep, don’t add any fertilisers or herbicides, and make hay in late summer, job done 🙂
It’s always so nice when this happens. I can remember clearly spending days writing, recording and re-recording this song with no thought other than really enjoying the creative process and wondering how it will turn out. And then sometime later it makes it into a chart somewhere in the world. Thank you 🙂
Oh and it’s available for download for only 0.99 $, £, E on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play etc…:)
Heading West, which marks Howe’s fourth journey with Real Music, features some of his most sublime music to date. The guitar is central on this release, featuring warm, carefree strumming that is accented by keyboards, piano and rhythm. Songs like “Old Wooden House” and “American Travels” have a pensive beauty to them — the guitar harmonies bear a reflective essence, as if Howe is wandering through old haunts reminiscing of past joys. “Badlands” ups the tempo a bit and adds a bit of bluesy groove, while maintaining Howe’s signature laid-back flair. A must listen for fans of relaxing guitar music.
This song is from my second album “Round River”
The Atlantic Grey seals come ashore around our Pembrokeshire coast at this time of year to give birth to their pups.
The pups are white and fairly helpless at first.
The adults patrol the beaches and the mothers are understandably protective…
Usually tranquillity reigns but not always, sometimes there’s the odd disagreement….
I am so grateful to Mike Alexander for sharing these fabulous photographs with me, and you.
Mike Howe 