The Vernal/Spring Equinox is today, the moment with equal hours of daylight and darkness, so whether you think Spring starts on the 1st of March or at the Equinox, either way..............it's definitely here.
Spring has sprung
The grass has riz
I wonder where the birdie is?
The birdie is upon the wing,
No, that's absurd
The wing is on the little bird
This is the segment from the wheel of the year for Spring from my book 'Ceremonies of the Seasons'.
The day was once known as Ostara, the Pagan festival celebrating Eostre, Saxon or Germanic Goddess of Spring. There is a story that Eostre found a wounded bird and to save it's life she turned it into a hare, but even though the bird looked like a hare it was still able to lay eggs. As a thank you to the goddess the hare decorated the eggs and gave them to her as gifts. Eostre was often depicted as having a hare's head on a human body.
The word Vernal comes from the Latin vernare meaning To Bloom
(Resorting to repeating blog posts from past years!)
It may be Spring but there is a hard white frost here in Dorset, hope my Dahlias in greenhouse survive! Sarah Browne
ReplyDeleteThere was a bit of frost on the car roof this morning but it went very quickly. Now a lovely day
DeleteWell you can never trap the seasons of the year to a particular day. Spring happens. So let us welcome Spring when it gets lighter in the morning and evening, it will soon be gone after all.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping for a lovely warm summer
DeleteJoyous to welcome the spring equinox and the sun's shining. The illustration for spring is lovely.
ReplyDeletePenny
A glorious day in Suffolk - very springlike
DeleteHappy new year!
ReplyDeleteThank you
DeleteI love the "Pictish scrolls" on the little bunnies. An overnight frost here too. Not opening the door just yet - waiting for it to warm up just a little bit.
ReplyDeleteA book with some lovely illustrations
DeleteSue, I've had a earworm all week thanks to you - 'twas on a Monday morning . . .' 😂
ReplyDeleteSorry!
DeleteHappy equinox!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteBeautiful illustration
ReplyDeleteIt really feels like spring here today.
Alison in Devon x
Two days of warmer days and sunshine makes everything so much better
DeleteCelebrating by being outside, listening to the birds who are definitely 'twitterpated'* and enjoying the warmth and gentle sunshine - Ostara blessings ☀️💚
ReplyDelete*thanks to Walt Disney and Bambi - we use twitterpated every year :)
Twitterpated is a new word to me!
DeleteHappy Spring! One daffodil is blooming for me today. First one this year! :)
ReplyDeleteDaffodils are almost finished here - tulips next - lovely
DeleteHuge washing out on the line and I have spent two hours weeding and litter picking in the garden. Spring has indeed sprung. Catriona
ReplyDeleteThe calendar says it is Spring, but it is so cold in MA, it still feels like Winter.
ReplyDeleteMy daffodils are just poking through the ground where the snow is completely gone. The islands of snow are melting very slowly.
The sun is shining and for that I am grateful.
Happy Spring, Sue.
I have never heard the poem that way! Just the 'spring has sprungv the grass is riz. I wonder where the flowers iz.
ReplyDeleteIt's still like a rollercoaster here, though thankfully we're on a couple of warmer days. I'm hoping the snow is behind us - well most of it anyway! There are signs of spring - snowdrops and the daffodils are trying to pop up through the leaves. Hopefully soon things will even out
ReplyDeleteI love that Spike Milligan poem, and I come out with it every time Alan says 'Spring has sprung' ... it's driving him mad. :-)
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