Sunday, April 13, 2025

Hearts on a Bench #ShadowshotSunday

Taken on a recent sunny day.

Two hearts, one shadow.

The matching seat.

Joining Lisa at Lisa's Garden Adventure for her #ShadowshotSunday.

at 4 comments:

Friday, April 11, 2025

Just (in Time) For Sunset #SkywatchFriday

I was walking at the end of a busy day on April 7, and I realized that, despite the clouds, I was about to see a sunset.  I was just in time.

Somehow, the photos ended up being posted in reverse order (in other words, the last photo I took is the first one posted below and the first photo I took is the last one in this series.  I guess you can consider this a true reverse sunset, as I don't have time to straighten it all out.





Joining Yogi and other sky watching bloggers each Friday for #SkywatchFriday.

at 15 comments:

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Hark it's April Flowers #WordlessWednesday

I have to celebrate spring today although our weather recently has not been spring like.  We had a dusting of snow yesterday.

But spring still progresses.  Some flowers are a bit earlier than usual.

A local forsythia.

Cinquefoil.
 

Lenten Rose.

6.
15.
36.
41.
44.

Joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for her #WordlessWednesday.

at 15 comments:

Monday, April 7, 2025

Finding April Shower (Songs) #MusicMovesMe

 It's Monday and it's time for music!

7.
10.

Today I am joining up with other Music Moves Me bloggers (and you can join us at the linky above). We are a group of music loving bloggers who blog about music each Sunday or Monday (or even later in the week). If you have music to share with us, you are most welcome to join! (Music Posts Only-meaning at least one music video, please! Otherwise, your post link may be labeled "No Music" or even removed.)   

Our head host is Xmas Dolly, and our co-hosts are Cathy from Curious as a Cathy, joined by the knowledgeable Stacy of Stacy Uncorked and, last but not least, me.

Every other week we have a theme.  This week's theme is "Rain Showers".  Silly me, I thought it was "April Showers" so that's what I blogged about.  I guess the recent rains we've had made me read the theme that way.

There are lots of songs out there about rain, but not that many about April showers.  So let's start with a song called April Showers, which was originally written for a Broadway play in 1921. I remember it still being popular when I was growing up in the 1950's and 1960's.  It's been covered by many artists but I'm choosing this 1921 recording from Al Jolson.

April Showers. 


 Little April Shower from the Disney movie Bambi.

March Winds and April Showers - Teddy Joyce and His Orchestra, from 1935.

Some songs hat may or may not be specifically about April showers:

Here's a cute children's song: The Kiboomers and April Showers Bring May Flowers.

Rain, from the Beatles. 


 I'll wrap up with Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head, a 1969 hit for B. J. Thomas.

 And that's a wrap!

Join me again next week for another episode of Music Moves Me.

 

 



at 11 comments:

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Early Spring Flowers #ShadowshotSunday

Spring has come early to the Southern Tier of New York.  I'm hoping it stays that way and that we don't get a late snowstorm.  That has happened before.  These pictures were taken April 4.

Forsythia. 

My favorite violet.

Flowers, of course, must be pollinated. Just guessing this is a bee ornament.

Joining Lisa at Lisa's Garden Adventure for her #ShadowshotSunday (even though it is Saturday, as I will be busy most of tomorrow).

at 11 comments:

Friday, April 4, 2025

Desiring Spring Skies #SkywatchFriday

 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.

I liked the look of this particular sky.

First nice puddle picture in a while.

Clouds and river.

 

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.

at 16 comments:

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Bald Regal Eagle #WordlessWednesday

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.

Yes, I'm talking to you!

Stop staring at me!

7.
13.
32.
34.
35.

Joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for her #WordlessWednesday.

at 13 comments:

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

April Fool Classics

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.


 It isn't just the fine folks at the BBC that can create hoaxes.  We Americans got hoaxed but good on April 1 1996 when Taco Bell bought one of our great patriotic symbols - or did they? 

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. 

at 9 comments: