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The Spring Solstice…..at last

Muscari have arrived….. 19.3

The Spring Solstice is here after what has been both a strange winter and early spring.  From today the days will get longer and the nights shorter.  Our Muscari (I think they are called Grape Hyacinth in North America) have at long last put in an appearance….but this year they do look rather strained, straggly and rather pale.

Still best not to complain they still add that vital spring note to the garden.

** I stand corrected the title of todays blog should be “Spring Equinox” (see comment below)

20th March (C) David Oakes 2015

9 thoughts on “The Spring Solstice…..at last”

  1. I like your sentiment and photo but I have to take issue with your astronomy. The days start to get longer starting at the winter solstice (21st December in the Northern Hemisphere). There is no “Spring Solstice”: it is the Vernal Equinox: the day when the sun is directly overhead at noon at the Equator and the rate of change of the length of day is greatest.

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    1. Slip of the fingers ..I did mean to type Spring Equinox and from today the days are getting longer than the nights….till we start the whole cycle in reverse on June 21st…..and the way time flies by that is not that far away! (-:

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      1. It is the equinox where day and night are equally as long. The solstice is when the sun turns again. It’s for me another day of celebration tomorrow. But I will go to the wood on Monday as then the weather forecast is much better and dryer than it wil be tomorrow. I will bring my little electrical candle, a bottle of water, a feather and a an egg and a stone with me to lay out my altar. The feather represents the East and the wind and the egg new life, new beginning. The candle represents the South and the passion (any passion, like photography f.i.), the water represents the West and also the aging of human life – the getting older and then the stone is for the North. Representing Earth and also the end of life. The circle is round. We call this Spring feast: OSTARA.
        The next one will be Beltane ( :D) and then we have Litha: the solstice! You are so right… time seems to go faster and faster when you get older. 🙂

        Happy Ostara everybody.

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        1. Well I have learn’t something new about the ‘compass points’ thanks for that explanation about Ostara….but isn’t an electric candle a bit Hi-tech!? Enjoy your weekend.

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          1. Better hight tech 😀 than a real one. It’s been pretty dry here. I don’t want to set a fire… 🙂

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