It's nice to see some clouds besides the usual winter gloom, although we are still getting some of that, too. Yes, spring has arrived where I live in the Southern Tier of New York.
Bonus picture from my guest photographer.
One more for the road - snowdrops in a local park, also taken March 29. No sky, just Nature's beauty.
Have a great week.
Joining Yogi and other skywatchers for #SkywatchFriday.
Today, I am borrowing from my guest photographer's portfolio. Because my friend has a DSLR and lives in a rural area, she can capture a lot of bird pictures that I can't with my iPhone 13 mini.
While visiting Owego in mid-March, someone pointed out a tree to us that had a bald eagle nest. With a little patience my friend got these pictures of one of these majestic eagles.
Bald Eagle looking Regal.
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Joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for her #WordlessWednesday.
A Tuesday post from me. April Fool!
(No, this is a real post.)
After some eight years of doing the Blogging from A to Z Challenge, I've had to skip doing it this year, due to circumstances beyond my control. But I can bring back a previous tradition on my blog today.
Before I joined A to Z, I used to post an annual April Fool post.
So today, on April Fools Day, I want to talk about The Good Old Days.
April Fools Internet pranks are fun to find each year but if you think about it, enough of the top hoaxes of the last hundred years
(including the famous BBC Spaghetti Tree Harvest Documentary) predate
the Internet.
But, thanks to the Internet, I can also bring you this classic hoax from 1957.
And I can bring you another classic - the flying penguins of 2008.
Here are some other hoax ads.
But we used to have a lot of fun "in the old days" with April Fool's
jokes in magazines - including special TV supplements published in TV
Guide magazine. I wonder if anyone else remembers this, because I can't
find anything online about these April Fools issues except, perhaps some people selling said magazines on eBay.
Back then, before cable TV systems had online TV programming
information, and before cable TV further homogenized the weekly TV
listings, a weekly magazine called TV Guide published the listings.
They had tens of of regional editions and I loved to collect them when I went traveling. Just think of how much work this all took. I still have some of them, too.
At least twice in the early 1960's I remember the issue that would have
contained listings for April 1 having a special section, with hoax TV
shows and other non-information.
This, of course, was part of a distinguished April Fools tradition of hoax magazine articles. I just think it would be so cool if anyone else remembered what TV Guide did - and if I could even see some of those issues.
But now, in our modern world, I'll have to rely on an online site tracking the 2025 April Fools jokes.
Let me wrap up by wishing all my readers participating in A to Z a wonderful month to come.
