Today, March 20, is the first day of spring. If you lean toward the nerdy side of life it's called the Vernal Equinox - "the time when the sun crossed the plane of the earth's equator making night and day approximately equal length all over the earth", according to my reference source. Duh...who didn't know that? Everybody knows that it's when the amount of daylight and darkness of night are just about the same amount of time.
For us, it's the beginning of warmer weather, outdoor activities and a hearty "don't let the door hit you in the butt" good-bye to winter. Time to clean up the grills, tune up the lawn mowers and eagerly anticipate the greening up of this piece of heaven we call the Ville. It's the beginning of the great escape from being cooped up indoors trying to stay warm. It's time for tank tops, shorts & flip flops.
Yesterday while trekking up the hillside that runs along Route 7 to get some more pictures of our spot on earth we came upon this cluster of March lilies. They were about half way up the hill on a little knob amid all the scattered leaves, bramble and trees that are just now barely budding out. How they got there is any one's guess. We're leaning toward it being left overs from private property that was in that location before the highway construction claimed it.
With the unseasonable warmth and the bright sunshine we've enjoyed the last few days you can find renewed life in a lot of things that grow in soil scattered around. There's nothing prettier in these rolling hills & valleys than the greening that comes with this time of year.
Have a great Spring!
ole nib
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