The Changing Seasons, April 2021
April has been a crazy month for weather. With temperatures ranging from below freezing to around 80 degrees (27 C), cold damp weather was sandwiched between absolutely gorgeous spring days. As we leave April for what is normally (and hopefully will still be) our most flowery spring month, our rollout to summer continues. I’m hoping for a spring-like May rather than a hot, muggy, summery May. We could get either and there’s no way to predict it with any degree of accuracy.
About The Changing Seasons
The Changing Seasons is a monthly project where bloggers around the world share their thoughts and feelings about the month just gone. We all approach this slightly differently — though generally with an emphasis on the photos we’ve taken during the month.
For many of us, looking back over these photos provides the structure and narrative of our post, so each month is different. Others focus on documenting the changes in a particular project — such as a garden, an art or craft project, or a photographic diary of a familiar landscape. In the end, it’s your changing season, and you should approach it in whatever way works best for you.
There are no fixed rules around post length or photo number — just a request that you respect your readers’ time and engagement.
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Categories: Blackstone River, Changing Seasons, climate change, Nature, Photography, Wildlife
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Goodness! It does sounds like a very schizophrenic April – hope May is as you wish … more Spring-like!
Lovely captures: beautiful scenery and very perky animals! My favourite is Doggie wistfully looking out the window!
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That’s Duke’s favorite position. He watches the world and if something interests him, he races down the stairs and hits the doggy door at 100 mph after which he barks for an hour. He is very fierce. (Not.)
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Duke sounds adorable!
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The Starling image is amazing. What a varied month of weather you have had. Here is to a mild and comfortable May!
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Climate change is hitting places along the ocean more than inland areas I think. Warmer oceans are stirring up unusual weather patterns. Also bringing big sharks with many, many sharp teeth because the warm water also brings their favorite dinner: seals. And if the seals get away, those swimmers look pretty tasty.
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The light in your photos is delightful, Marilyn. I really enjoyed your chipmunk and starling photo too. Wonderful. I hope you get some rain in May but not too much.
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I don’t think we could get too much rain unless we were hit by a huge hurricane — a rare event around here. It has been so dry for so long, the rivers and lakes are hungry for wet. So are our woods and gardens.
I had never gotten such a close look at starlings until they started to drop by the feeders. They really are beautiful, which probably explains how they got here in the first place.
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The starlings are out of place here too, Marilyn. I’m looking forward to your post next month.
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I don’t think they are supposed to even BE here. They are beautiful, though. I’m glad they’ve come to visit and apparently plan on hanging around awhile. But everything is more than a little bit off-kilter. Too warm at the wrong times of year, yet too cold when it ought to be warm — and snow on April 16? That’s rare. Very.
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Wow, your April weather does a bit crazy. We’ve just had a gradual transition from hot and dry to cooler and just a little bit wetter. If we don’t get a wet winter, next summer’s drought will be pretty bad.
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Ours is still looking bad. We got some rain, but not nearly enough. We’ve been in drought conditions for nearly a decade. There are brush fires all over the place. Everyone has to be very careful. The earth is both drying up AND flooding.
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A work of beauty..
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Thank you. It was sheer luck that landed us here. I really didn’t know how beautiful it is until we’d lived here for a few years. Blind luck, but really GOOD luck.
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Wonderful pictorial summary of “The cruelest month”.
That chipmunk has become a regular on the back porch lunch box.
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Lovely photos, Marilyn! They sure say it all about spring.
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It has been such an odd season, too. Warm, cold, warm, cold, SNOW? Warm, warm, warm. Cold. Rain. Wind. More wind. A flower. Half blooming trees and bushes. I think this month, we’ll get the whole package.
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what a great concept and I really love your bridge shot
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I hadn’t realized we’d be outside so much. I guess we were because I have outdoor photos from a dozen days in the month and a dozen more all taken from inside (birds, flowers, et al). This is much more than usual — and a lot of pictures especially considering my computer was down for almost a week. The weather was bizarre and erratic, I was going to make a gallery, but that wouldn’t explain how strange the climate has been. Hence the timeline 😀
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