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VERNAL EQUINOX COMING SOON

Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 10:46 AM

Northern Hemisphere – Eastern Time

If you haven't already done so, mark your calendars! Spring will be arriving 23 days from now.

Yes, I've kept up with the news--snowstorms of gigantic proportions hitting the Northeastern U.S. Avalanches that took lives in the West. Temps cowering in the lower digits all over the map.

But it's going to be Spring! Give thanks! Have a party! Give somebody a big hug! Throw your sweatshirt in the corner and run outside! So what if the thermometer says it's only 22 degrees that day? Enjoy 15 seconds of Spring!

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So, what can you do outside on the First Day of Spring? Well, you can look for signs--those big or little reminders that Earth is going through her paces. Spring brings new growth--do you see any of the early flowers? Daffodils? Crocuses? Little buds on bushes that will one day explode into flower? (I always wish for a snowball bush about now.) Lilacs have had buds all through winter--soon there will be some green on the brownish buds, and before we know it, there'll be leaves--then more buds for flowers--and one day you'll open your back door and by gum, there'll be lilacs blooming in your dooryard.

Grass has been green throughout the winter--sometimes visible, sometimes hidden under snow (up to a foot or more here in Northeast Indiana)--but there, nonetheless. 

I'm not an outdoor girl. (I think I've mentioned that before? Yes, I thought so.) But the arrival of a new season is cause for celebration. And if the weather doesn't cooperate? Spring is a season of the heart--and mind--and spirit, as much as a date and time on a calendar. Maybe more so.

And thanks be for that!

Blessings,

Thursday's Child