Spring Equinox News

The Daily Bucket is a place where we post and exchange our observations about what is happening in the natural world in our neighborhood.

This year's event, themed "City Sidewalks," raised $140,000 to support Hospice Peterborough, the Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation and the Greater Peterborough Health Services Foundation.

A. The event often revolves around one particular Pennsylvania groundhog emerging from its burrow to look for its shadow cast by the rising Sun.

A The vernal equinox happens on March 19 this year, but the first poppies are already blooming and the first buckeyes are leafing out, and the finches are singing.* We'll have more cold weather and more rain, I hope, but for all intents and purposes, spring has come to the Bay Area.

In Pennsylvania, the venerable groundhog Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his burrow today and saw his shadow, leading officials to declare there would be six more weeks of winter.

Today is the Sabbat of imbolc also known as Oimelc or Candlemas. Imbolc, deriving from the words that mean "in milk', is the Sabbat marking the beginning of the melting of the snow and the time that the animals began to show signs of being pregnant.

I know, some of y'all are still deeply buried under snow. But honest - today is the first day of spring.

On Thursday, the world's most famous marmot predicted six more weeks of winter, and chronologically speaking, it was the safe, punk bet.

If you think of the year as a compass with the equinoxes and solstices the four cardinal points, then this cross-quarter day - one of four - represent the ordinal points, dissecting our seasons.

There are a few things in life you can always count on. Death, taxes, and an early Spring in Savannah.

Imbolc is one of the eight festivals of the pagan year, and is the one most cencerned with new life, returning light and Brighid.

I was standing on the edge of my woodlot, waiting for my die-hard hunting buddy to emerge from the shadows.

The spring of year for Celtic Irish and Irish Americans is between Imbolg and Beltaine on the Celtic Year Wheel.

The needle on the color meter tilts toward "low" in mid-winter, when wardrobes turn to black and gray, landscapes seem bleached and intake of vitamin D from sunshine is paltry.

Imbolc is just around the corner, starting on the night of February first and running through the next day.

The needle on the color meter tilts toward "low" in midwinter, when wardrobes tend to black and gray, landscapes seem bleached and intake of Vitamin D from sunshine is paltry.

The tradition of New Year's resolution dates back to the early Babylonians, when the most popular resolution was to return borrowed farm equipment.

The needle on the colorometer tilts toward Low in midwinter when wardrobes tend to black and gray, landscapes are bleachy, and intake of Vitamin D from sunshine is paltry.

At 1:14 am eastern time on March 20th, spring arrives in Maine, as the hours of sunlight and darkness reach a balance.