It’s spring, and I made a photo to mark the occasion.
The spring equinox happened this week. As I understand it, that means that for one day the Earth rotated into a mostly parallel alignment with the sun, and we, meaning everyone on the planet, had mostly equal day and night.
From this point on daylight hours and intensity in the U.S. will increase. The Earth will rotate her northern hemisphere towards the sun and we’ll have more and more light. The added sunlight will signal the plants to grow, the flowers to bloom, and all the people to start scheduling their home renovations and beach vacations. And this happens within a range of two or three days in March, every year.
When I stop to consider the magnitude of this movement, it seems like cause for a celebration. I’m somewhat familiar with equinox festivities—I know that many Native and ancient cultures had them. But beyond wishing you a happy spring, which of course I do, it’s not very culturally familiar to me. (My yoga studio doesn’t even mark the equinox.)
My right brain is certain this is a time worthy of awe and wonder that deserves to be marked in some special way. My left brain says I’ll have to move to California if I’m going to start doing these sorts of things.
Rather than pick up and move this week, I decided to ease into it by making a photo—my own personal celebration of the Earth, the Sun, and always the flowers.
Oh, and Happy Spring!
What Nature Says