April 2023

Mallard Ducks On Lake Champlain

It was cold and windy with very flat light yesterday. A grayish beige haze was the tone on the last day of March 2023.

I felt a pall of misery, a damp bone chilling apathy in Mother Nature's attitude. Blah! Stay indoors.

I went out anyway.

I was compelled to check if geese were at the wildlife refuge. A get it over with task. 

Canada geese. I saw them in the fields, near a field puddle, hugging the shore or in somebody's yard. There was no large migrating flock at Dead Creek that I saw (or heard). 

At Fort St Frederic, Upstate New York, I walked out to take better photos of a large number of what I believe are cormants on Lake Champlain. Black and white, I think cormants. The light was a misery for pictures, (and my mood as well). Nearly all photos are fuzzy.

Cormants On Lake Champlain

Another geese checking trip out and about is not planned. A different focus on Spring this year has yet to be decided. New places and, a new angle are pulling at my ponder this skills.

I woke this morning thinking April Fool's Day is perfect to announce I will stop posting here. Nah.

Misery is a mood, not a rule. 

Next week will be the first post for the new feature here that's all about pumpkins. 

 

Ponder Fodder, Streaming TV & Blogging

Old Hedgerow Weeds & Sunshine, 2012

 

Ponder Fodder 

A new system to learn. A craft to understand. A morning to decide what to do or not to do. Those aren't questions. They are ponder fodder. 

The sun is shining. I can see the trees are moving. Wind. Clouds. Blue sky. I have on my sloppy work pants and thread worn chambray shirt. I suspect my first thoughts of the day are to finish the Spring cleaning. I created messes pulling things out. Sorting to put them away in a donation box or elsewhere isn't like pulling out an awful splinter. 

It is emotionally worse.

Streaming Television

I have discovered that not all channels allow watching the live programs being aired unless you have a TV provider. I am not sure how Wifi versus TV signal works.  The news and weather reports are available on some of the major networks, but not the regular programming. There are shows where the program will be available to watch after it airs initially.

If you are considering going the live streaming route instead of regular television viewing, then there is a learning curve. At this point, I am comfortable learning as I go. I am seeing though; the lane ahead might have to include some television.

Blogging

I've been surfing blogs again to see how things are going at the level this blog is on, personal low end serendipity style. Thus far, I am finding more good blogs that have stop without a word about what happened. The Blogger, Blogs I Follow feature will show the last time a blog posted. Many of those dormant will either be online or deleted. 

Standing out are the variety of clever fun blog names folks have, and, the unbelievable amount of blogs that are online. 

It may seem like blogging is doing well when in reality, there might be fewer of us that are actively blogging. Google doesn't sort those statistics that I have found.

Link to interesting article about blogging

Finances Online dot com 2023 Article

New Feature in April

Bi-weekly pumpkin posts with links to recipes, crafts, art and photographs

It feels only right to promote pumpkins more.

In summary today, using the Raleway main font with Handlee titles, life goes on into Spring. I haven't been out and about to take photographs or produced artwork to blog about. I have been thinking, but nothing profound has overwhelmed me enough to write up a post on it. I've been reading blogs more than watching television, regular or streaming. 

Have a wonderful day