Blogging From A to Z Reveal 2024 #AtoZChallenge #AtoZReveal

It's March 10, and time to reveal my theme in the annual Blogging from A to Z Challenge.

I always start out as a "no, I've done it enough."  Then, a little voice says to me, "You know you want to do it."

Well, OK, little voice.  I'm going to do it.

Before I reveal my theme, a bit about my blog and what I've done for past challenges. 

I started to blog in 2009, and started to blog daily in 2011.  I blog about music on Mondays, a Wordless Wednesday on Wednesday, Skywatch Friday on Fridays, Shadowshot Sunday on Sundays, and, on the 15th of the month, Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. I will keep up this schedule as much as possible in April.

I've taken the A to Z Challenge every year since 2015.  Last year, it allowed me to extend a blogging streak (I've blogged daily, starting from May of 2011) because I pre wrote blog posts.  It allowed me to coast during part of April, when I was not feeling well due to COVID.

If you aren't familiar with the Challenge, we blog something starting with A on Monday, April 1. On April 2, we start with B, and so forth, until we end Tuesday, April 30 with Z.  We have Sundays off.  26 days, 26 letters, and some letters are a real challenge. (X, I'm looking at you!)

Most all my previous themes have been related to travel.  As my regular readers know, I am a confirmed photo hoarder.  As of today, I have 50.3 GB of photos on my phone.

Wherever I go, I take pictures.  Pictures of things.  Quirky things.  Historic things.  Plants.  Flowers.  Sunsets.  Graves of famous people.  I weave some of these into my daily posts and will this April, too.

Here are my past themes, and you can see a pattern here:

2015:  America the Beautiful

2016:  Days of our Lives (no not the soap opera)

2017 - Traveling Through Time and Space

2018 -  Florida Outside the Theme Parks (this may have been my favorite one)

2019 -  Finding America Through Photos

2020 - America the Beautiful (I never realized I repeated my 2015 theme!)

2021:  New York State

2022:  From Florida to Vermont with Stops Inbetween 

2023:  Exploring South Carolina and the Eastern United States.

For 2024, I looked back at 2023.  I visited gardens, historic houses, and local libraries that presented me with the unexpected.   Not only that, but I have photos on similar themes from previous years. How best could I use these photos?   

With that in mind, I announce my 2024 theme (drum roll): Gardens, History, Art and The Unexpected.

I reserve the right to deviate from the theme, but I hope not to do that too often.  I may even repeat a post from years past that will hopefully be new to you.  For "C" I have a yearly theme and on Wednesday, April 3, you'll see why.

I look forward to reconnecting with previous bloggers, and meeting some new ones. We'd love to have you.

If you’d like to sign up for the Theme Reveal, after you’ve written your post, go here and fill out the form. A general signup sheet will go live on the Blogging from A to Z home page two weeks from today, so if you have no theme, or if you hadn’t planned on announcing it just yet, you’ll have another opportunity to join us on April 1.

See you there, starting April 1 with the letter "A".