The Changing Seasons, April 2023

April is the changeover month — winter as it begins, spring when it ends. If you are waiting for flowers and trees to bloom, May will be the month.

First up, flowers. Outside, violets, dandelions, and tulips. The rest are indoor flowers: orchids, lilies, bouquets, roses.

Much time has been taken up with the new Media War Stories podcasts of which there will 12 as of today. This is Episode 12 with guest John Corcoran.

This month was Garry’s 81st birthday. We celebrated and moved on. His birthday arrived in the middle of getting over COVID.

To be fair, birthdays aren’t the way they used to be when we were younger. In some ways, every new day is a birthday.

The brown-headed cowbirds have taken over the backyard and I’m not feeding them until they give up and move on. The last time I had to convince the cowbirds to move on, it took just about three seedless weeks. Fortunately, there is plenty of available “free” food. We are continuing to put out suet, but not seeds.

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. Some 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.

But in the end, it is your changing season, and you should approach it however works 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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Tag your photos with #MonthlyPhotoChallenge and #TheChangingSeasons so that others can find them. Create a ping-back to Brian at Bushboys World or this post, so that it can be updated it with links.

Categories: #animals, #Birds, #Flowers, #gallery, #MonthlyPhotoChallenge, #Photography, #TheChangingSeasons, Anecdote, orchids

Tags: #Birds, #Flowers, #gallery, #MonthlyPhotoChallenge, #Photography, #TheChangingSeasons, Marilyn Armstrong, podcast