2024 · 🌸🌷 Spring 🌷🌸

Beautiful Colors of Spring (13)

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Texas Sunset In Spring 2012

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2024 · 🌸🌷 Spring 🌷🌸 · Our Yard

Our Yard In Mid-May (2)

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1) Spring Rain Drops; 2) Greater Celandine; 3) Daisy Fleabane;
4 & 5) Rhododendron; 6) Roseleaf Raspberry Blossoms;
7) Greater Celandine; 8) Bugleherb

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2024 · 🌸🌷 Spring 🌷🌸 · Our Forest · Our Yard

Our Yard/Forest In Early May (2)

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1) Wild Columbine; 2) Ozzy; 3) Dark-barred twin-spot Carpet Moth;
4) Maples in our forest; 5) Norway Maple Leaves; 6) Bumble Bee on
Honeysuckle; 7) Crabapple Blossoms; 8 & 9) Pusteblume;
10)Star of Bethlehem; 11) More Maples; 12) Garlic Mustard

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2024 · 🌸🌷 Spring 🌷🌸 · Our Yard · Texas

Beautiful Colors of Spring (8)

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2024 · 🌸🌷 Spring 🌷🌸

Hello April 2024!

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April Songbirds’ joyful music, and the early springtime flowers,
Colorful umbrellas opened wide for April showers.
Days are brighter, hearts are lighter, promise fills the air –
The gifts of April bring us special happiness to share.

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2024 · 🌸🌷 Spring 🌷🌸 · Ostara

Spring Equinox/Ostara 2024

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Springtime; heady scents, vibrant splash of breathtaking colors, so-refreshing rustling of leaves, spring blesses us with colorful brighter days, making us feel more alive than ever. One of four seasons including summer, fall, and winter, each accompanied by a change in weather, spring is characterized by warmer, brighter temperatures, an increase in rainfall, the bloom of flowers, and the grand return of certain animals (bears, bats hedgehogs, wood frogs, among many others); sometimes spring also is characteristic of storms and tornadoes.

Marked by the astronomical definition, spring which occurs between the spring equinox and the summer solstice is dependent on equinoxes (β€˜equinox’ β€” Latin for β€˜equal night.’) One of the two times of the year when daytime and nighttime are almost the same lengths) and solstices, β€” β€˜solstice’ β€” derived from the Latin word β€˜sol’ meaning Sun, and β€˜sistere,’ translated to make stand. Solstice is one of two moments yearly when the Sun is farthest from Earth’s equator. During spring, the earth’s axis is not tilted toward or away from the Sun.

In the Northern Hemisphere, spring kick-starts when the vernal equinox blesses us with her presence and the sun crosses the equator line, heading north. (β€˜vernal’ from the mid-16th century Latin β€˜vernalis’ derived from the Latin word β€˜ver’ β€” β€˜spring’ and β€˜equinox’ from the Latin words β€˜aequi’ β€” β€˜equal,’ and β€˜nox’ β€” night.’) In contrast, at that very moment, the Southern hemisphere begins tilting away from the sun, officially signaling the ushering in of cooler temperatures autumn (fall). In the Southern Hemisphere, spring, associated with September, October, and November, occurs on September 22. During the first day of spring, the Sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

Spring, dubbed the season of new beginnings, rebirth, rejuvenation, and transformation is eagerly embraced with lots of excitement, melting our hearts with endless possibilities that lie ahead.

Resource: https://nationaltoday.com/spring-begins/

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2024 · 🌸🌷 Spring 🌷🌸 · Ostara · Wheel of The Year

Early Spring Bloom In The Neighbor’s Yard

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1) Lesser Periwinkle; 2) Snowdrops; 3) Spring Crocus

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2024 · 🌸🌷 Spring 🌷🌸 · Our Yard

Spring Is Coming!

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Today is another nice Spring day. It is mostly cloudy. But, the temperatures are 59℉/15℃. It’s very comfortable to be outside wearing a hoodie or a light jacket. When I looked for our blooming snowdrops, I had a curious little chickadee following me around the garden. The closest distance between the bird and me was maybe three-and-a-half to four feet. I must have been in its territory. Maybe, it wanted to tell me: “Spring is coming!”

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2024 · 🌸🌷 Spring 🌷🌸

Beautiful Colors of Spring (1)

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Mammatus Clouds
Mammatus Clouds In The North Texas Sky ~2008

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2024 · 🌸🌷 Spring 🌷🌸 · Our Forest · Our Yard

The First Day of Meteorological Spring In Litchfield County, Connecticut 2024

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Aaahh! The first day of March was a beautiful day. Cool, but with the right clothes being in the sun it was comfortable to sit in the garden for a while. When I let our dogs outside, I noticed a Red-tailed Hawk couple visiting the nest on the tree in our forest. They both were fixing some twigs and brought softer material to the nest. Soon, we will have a hawk nursery. How exciting?!

Later, I walked down to the rim of our forest. However, it didn’t take long until Chewbacca came following me and meowing as he wanted to tell me, that it is not that safe down here at the moment. Well, he’s right. Bruno and his bear cousins will be out of their den and roaming the woods for food soon, again. And they will be hungry. Therefore, my neighbor puts out only a small portion of seeds for the birds. By sundown, the seeds are usually all eaten up. And there is no big concern that Bruno visits the neighborhood. He usually stays in the woods.

The Snowdrops are in bloom, and some of the trees show some flower buds. It will take another four to six weeks until the edge of the Winter is gone in Litchfield County. But, once Spring has arrived, and won’t go anywhere else until Summer will knock on the door. Spring, you can’t come soon enough. I want to start my vegetable garden, soon.

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