Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Spring equinox

  • ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL, today is the day that all things are equal. Day equals night, night's the same span as day, and the new season bursts into bloom like a bold Finnish flower.
  • (Washington Post)
  • At 1:14 a.m. Tuesday morning, the vernal equinox quietly arrived, signaling the much-awaited start of spring. The vernal equinox is one of just two times during the year when the length of day and night are almost equal.
  • (Washington Post)
  • Spring has sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where the birdies is? Spring has sprung, and right on schedule, Washington D.C.'s famous cherry blossom trees are in bloom, as if they knew today marked the official first day of spring.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • The vernal equinox, or spring equinox, is one of two times during the year when the length of day and the length of night are just about equal. And when this happens, the egg balancers and broom standers come out of the woodwork.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • Across much of the United States, this has been an unusually mild winter, especially for those living east of the Mississippi. Not a few people have noted that spring seems to have come early this year.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • The search engine's homepage logo has been transformed into a colourful Spring-themed scene of plants and animals to mark March 20 - when day and night are the same length.
  • (Daily Telegraph)
  • Of course, in a meteorological sense that could be true, but in 2012 it will be true in an astronomical sense as well, because this year spring will make its earliest arrival since the late 19th century: 1896, to be exact.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • Almost every culture, past and present, has some sort of ritual to celebrate the promise and fertility of spring.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • The spring equinox doodle is live in about half the world, but its the autumn equinox in the southern half of the globe, and theres another doodle, also from Marimekko, which you can check out above.
  • (Softpedia)

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