March was a transitional month for my social media posts on Instagram and Vero.  I began the month with some spring posts from my 2024 catalog that had not previously been posted,  and began posting images from 2025 toward the end of the month following a couple of early spring wildflower outings.  Wildflowers here in Texas were more sparse than in 2024,  due to a late fall drought in many parts of the state during germination time,  and colder than normal temperatures in January and February this year delayed bloom times for those plants that did emerge. 

My top social media post for the month, featured above,  was not a wildflower post but rather a bird photo that I captured in my own backyard during the month.  I've mentioned before that I really have not done much bird photography, but I was inspired by a presentation to our Kingwood Photo Club by noted bird photographer Alan Murphy.  I spent some time upgrading firmware in my Nikon Z8 camera and learning to use the various autofocus modes.  This photo of a goldfinch taking off from a perch was somewhat serendipitous, as it decided to leave just as I had focussed and snapped a single frame.  

The photo below was captured in 2024 at the Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historical Area, and features brightly colored Indian paintbrush against a blurred background of purple verbena.  I love taking photos at this park,  as the walking trails let you get in among the fields of wildflowers,  in contrast to often shooting over or through a fence on the mostly private property in the area.  

My third most popular social media posting of the month was actually a rainy-day Photoshop exercise early in the month while I was waiting for this years wildflowers to being their bloom.  It is a composite of three photos I took in 2024 in the Brenham, Texas area.  The row of trees along the ridge was captured on a rainy day, but there were no wildflowers at this location.  A more scenic foreground was added to bring some bluebonnets and paintbrush into the image.  The original photo of the trees had a flat rainy sky, so I replaced it with one from another image I took of a storm breaking up in the area.  This was a fun exercise and I'm pleased with how it turned out.

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Scott