Good quotes. I remember reading Hal Borland's "North with the Spring" (I think that was title) many years ago as he told of traveling northward along the east coast watching for first signs of spring. It's fun to follow the postings at the GP this time of year. In the seventies here today but will be in the forties tonight. I'm toting two racks of seedlings in and out every day. josh

I think Hal Borland is one of the greats and his writing style always appealed to me. Happy spring Husky and may the sun melt your snow and you soon have daffodils everywhere.

I usually follow spring with the hummingbirds. They're back here.

Here is a link that might be useful: Hummingbird Migration Map

The hummingbirds will wait about three weeks before they get here, but the first day of spring came with a clear sky after almost 2 days of heavy rain. All the roofs and lawns had a sprinkling of crystal sugar tinted pink by the early sun. OK, so it was frost, but it went away and I also found my first daffodils open. Unfortunately snow is in the forcast for Easter.

It's a good thing I checked in here, or I'd have missed it! I was thinking tomorrow! Now I feel pretty cheesy because I was carping all day about the intense sun. We've had so much rain the last season, you'd have thought a sunny day would have been welcomed, but I've blown a small fortune out in gas to bring my Easter lilies to bloom in the dark/cold/dank days preceding this early easter........and the one day I'd have liked it to be dark/cool/humid it wasn't! LOL.

I just got in from working on tomorrow's shipment and those pristine white trumpets can crap out pretty quickly in heat and bright light. The moon is inspiring tonight, btw.

Here is a link that might be useful: About the changing dates of the equinox

An interesting link, Suzy, thanks.
I have paid attention much more to the natural cycles than the clock or the calendar since I moved to the boonies 24 years ago, the opportunity to observe the the sky and the seasons is so much more exiting than my life in the burbs or the cities has been.