Celebrating Spring And Autumn

46 Replies to “Celebrating Spring And Autumn”

1. I’ll stick with celebrating the arrival of spring thanks! Great catkins! Or as I say ‘fuzzy nubs’ 😆

   1. I hadn’t heard that but once heard, never forgotten!

2. Funny old gnome! I’m using phone so I had to enlarge to make him out 🤣💕

   1. Gnomes aren’t to everyone’s taste but he’s a cheery one. He’s a rescue gnome.

      1. Like from the rescue dog’s home? 🙂 🙂

         1. From the local recycling place. At one time there was a crowd of them.

            1. 🤔💕

3. Excellent post. I love Spring equinox, and the week after when the clocks change. Onwards and upwards!

   1. I think I’d prefer the clocks not to change, but it isn’t down to me.

      1. I’d like them not to change too. The summer version permanently for me please!

         1. I’d go with that.

4. I’m afraid I don’t go with all this spring/autumn equinox stuff, for me spring always has and always will start on March 1st. Love the photos though and the colours of the third one are stunning 🙂

   1. A very belated happy spring then!

5. In 2009, I experienced all four seasons in one month. We left Austin, Texas, in mid-March, still winter; arrived in New Zealand, still summer. We were there for the equinox, so it became autumn in New Zealand, and when we arrived back in Texas it was spring.

   1. It sounds like a very well planned trip! I’d heard of four seasons in one day (a Crowded House song) but that’s not quite the same.

6. Great pictures and the funny old gnome adds that bit of jollity.

   1. You can rely on a gnome for that.

7. You may not be aware, as I wasn’t till I visited New Zealand in 2015, that that country and Australia have advanced their official reckoning of the seasons’ beginnings by three weeks, to the first of the respective months. That may be what Eunice, in her comment above, was getting at, although she seems to be a Brit, like you, and not from the lands down under. Climatologically, spring in Austin (the one in Texas) normally begins in February.

   1. We seem to celebrate more than one date. I read that it is 23rd March for New Zealand.

      1. No, rather than going by equinoxes and solstices, New Zealand has decreed that each season will consist of three complete calendar months:

         https://www.tourism.net.nz/new-zealand/about-new-zealand/weather-and-climate.html

         1. I don’t know where I got the 23rd from!

8. Oh I like the quote and the pics are great ❤️

   1. Thanks, Kellie.

9. We are having a real, true, genuine early spring day here in Indiana, and that gnome is exactly me. Blissful! The quote is lovely, but I fear I am not good at accepting what Nature deems early or late; many times I think Nature is too early with autumn and too late with spring. The photos are wonderful captures of the seasons. Early or late, Nature certainly knows how to paint.

   1. I’m glad the weather was kind to you, but just hope it doesn’t perk the ducks up too much. I saw a solitary one, paddling round a pool full of frogspawn today (I nearly missed the spellcheck turning the last to ‘toady’ in an attempt at perception) and it was quacking constantly, so I thought of you. The duck, not the spellcheck.

      I would like to be a little more stoic than I am – that’s still a work in progress, but I can but try.

      1. Stoicism is overrated. So is spellcheck.

10. Happy Spring equinox:)

    1. And the same to you 🙂

11. Thank you for the colourful nod to the southern hemisphere!

    1. With summer in my sub-tropical area being so incredibly hot, I think I am as excited about our cooler autumn days as you are your warmer spring days. 🙂

       1. I can imagine that.

    2. My pleasure.

12. Beautiful spring pictures nicely balanced by fall. Great quotation, but it’s an idea I often struggle with, too.

    1. Often my favourite quotes are ideas to aspire to. I would not be too surprised if it was the same for Marcus Aurelius… though a message from him to confirm that would be something else entirely.

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