YAY, SPRING! This lovely season brings us rebirth along with increasing daylight, warming temperatures, and ~ well, we can always hope. Regardless, I promise it will get warmer, greener and lusher, eventually (unless you are south of the equator, then it\u2019s just the opposite and its autumn for you).<\/p>\n
Technically speaking, spring began today with the vernal equinox at 5:58 P.M. EDT. The word equinox is Latin for \u201cequal night\u201d (vernal means spring). In other words, today we will have approximately 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of nighttime everywhere on the Earth. Moreover, the Sun rises and sets due east and west. This happens because today, the tilt of Earth relative to the Sun is zero, which means that Earth\u2019s axis neither points toward nor away from the Sun (don\u2019t forget, the tilt of Earth is relative to its plane of orbit, called the ecliptic plane, which is always about 23.5 degrees). This is very cool.<\/p>\n
This morning, I went out looking for some signs of spring. I had to look hard, but found a couple. The stream by our house is starting to flow again.<\/p>\n