A week and a half after the blustery day at Tautra, I had a bright and sunny (but still cold) walk along the Lade Trail to the botanical gardens. What a difference the sun makes, even if the wind is still icy. There will be more such sunny days (and even warmer ones) to come. That said, I got some snow-on-birds shots just this last weekend. We're still having April showers, snow flurries, hail hammerings ... but, by definition, as of this coming weekend we will have May flowers.