Spring Awakening

Last week marked the beginning of Spring, which came after switching our clocks yet again for Daylight Savings Time. I hope that we all realize that the days don’t change because of clocks – they change because of how our planet is in orbit in relation to the sun. Spring comes regardless of a clock. 

We have increased daylight hours, hopefully getting a little warmer each day. In our household we eagerly await watching plants begin to bud, trying to remember if that particular plant is something coming back from last year, or is it a volunteer that landed in the yard.  

Spring is this magical time of opening, renewal, and rebirth as we move from the Spring Equinox – that moment when both the northern and southern hemispheres get an equal amount of light because of the earth’s axis. I chuckle because when I was young I was taught that the seasons changed on the 21st of December, March, June and September. It wasn’t until I was older that I learned that the “first day of spring” wasn’t because of a calendar, so it might fall on a different day each year – mind expanding information! 

Folks are eager to get outside. People are planning vacations, planting gardens, and outdoor markets. Work and play will be taking us outdoors. We hope we see you as we are out and about. 

“It is in the shelter of each other that people live.” Irish Proverb