Monday, March 20, 2006

Spring

Can you smell it... Spring is in the air...

We a saw the first Robin of the Spring so it must be just around the corner.

The original English word for the season Spring was 'lent' and this was replaced by Spring only in the 16th century, based on the notion of something beginning or rising, like water 'springs' from the ground. The vernal equinox ('equal night' from Latin aequinoctium), marking the beginning of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere, occurs today at about 6:26 pm, when the Sun moves north across the celestial equator.

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