Thursday, March 5, 2015

Spring?


The first day of spring is fluid in both time and space. People often use the March equinox (from the latin for "equal night", when day and night are each 12 hours in length), but it doesn't make much sense to use the same day for Key West, Florida, and Bangor, Maine, does it? It has been spring for a while in the deep south, and it marches north about 100 miles a day, according to Bill Felker of Poor Will's Almanack. If you venture on snowshoes into the woods or open fields, you'll be amazed at the bird activity right now. We are in very late winter, and early spring is slipping in.

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