SPRING is here! Yes, at 7:02 Wednesday morning, March 20, 2013 (Central Time). Many persons are surprised that a date and time of day can be given to the arrival of a season.
How do you know a new season has arrived?
The official time when the Vernal Equinox is at "O", thus the day and dark hours are equal during springtime.
While our part of the world is welcoming spring, those who live south of the equator are experiencing the opposite--or beginning of autumn.
Spring Is In The Air!
When most people think of SPRING, they think of rebirth, freshness, renewal, regrowth and resurrection. Buds on the trees blossom beautifully, flowers imerge, the grass turns green and the change in season creates appropriate weather for animals to give birth to young.
Soak-In Spring!
And spring is a time when romance blooms as well. Love is captured in the verse of many poets. Perhaps one of the more famous is William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 98" that was penned in 1609.
From you have I been absent in the spring
When proud-pied April, dress’d in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,
That heavy Saturn laugh’d and leap’d with him.
Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue,
Could make me any summer’s story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:
Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;
They were but sweet, but figures of delight,
Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.
Yet seem’d it winter still, and you away,
As with your shadow I with these did play.
Spring is in the air. To make this even more obvious, Braves Baseball will be on WGNS in a matter of weeks, and the smell of freshly cut grass and wild onions will soon fill our Middle Tennessee air. Get out and enjoy it!