DO YOU KNOW WHAT DAY IS TODAY?

March 21 is the first day of spring. It is a time when nature begins to awake from its long winter sleep and new life begins. Nights get shorter and days get longer. There is more sunshine and it becomes warmer and warmer.

The world around us is coming to life again and now is the time to renew, recharge and freshen up the world around us. Soon in gardens and woods the first flowers appear: white snowdrops and snowflakes, yellow marsh marigolds, dandelions and daffodils, blue forget-me-nots, coloured tulips, purple violets etc. Birds such as swallows, starlings, cuckoos come back from the south and we can hear them singing again.

Spring also has some disadvantages. It is an allergy season. This time of year, trees are the main cause of seasonal allergy symptoms. This will be followed by grasses in late spring and early summer.

Some traditional spring activities are spring cleaning, gardening, first grass cutting. Spring is the time to prune your plants.

Some Spring holidays celebrated are Ash Wednesday, St. David’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Mothers Day, Good Friday, Palm Sunday, Easter, St. George’s Day, May Day, Dawn Chorus Day.

Mothers Day is celebrated in March in the United Kingdom and in May in America

I watch the seasons come and go,
I hear the robin sing,
And in my Winter-weary heart
I know that it is Spring.

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