Happy Spring! 

The Perlanda Center for Nature Research    says the Spring (Vernal) equinox is at 1:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time (what we have now because we sprang forward on the 9th of March?  I think.)  

 The Perlanda site also says:

"Perelandra is for everyone who wants to take charge of their health, their environment and their life in simple, new and extraordinarily effective ways."

 I just Googled for something about the equinox... what time it would be Spring... that's how I found it.

Happy Spring Central Ohio

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                                                                Welcome Spring to Central Ohio at  8:07 PM... today March 21, 2007.

Signs of Spring in Central Ohio...

1. Crocuses blooming

2. Crocuses blooming in the snow.

3. Yellow forsythia bushes.

4. Yellow forsythia bushes against the snow.

5.  Robins... looking for worms... in the grass.  

6.  CAHS Celebrity Chef Event - tomorrow...

7. Kittens at the Capital Area Humane Society, Cozy Cat Cottage in Powell, Cat Welfare in Clintonville and other animal shelters and rescues.  I know there is a kitten season.  Is there a puppy season as well?

Maybe we won't have the snow in late March or April as we have some years....  the ground hog said we did not have six more weeks of winter 6 weeks ago.  Buckeye Chuck of Marion Ohio  and that PA ground hog... neither saw their shadows.... 

Celebrate the vernal equinox in Ohio - homing  passenger pigeons, the last live one seen in the wild was in Ohio? Celebration of the vernal equinox will be on the 24th

The lovely image of a puppy is a Real Living e-card.   Love the blue eyes on that pup.

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• EASTER FACTS from REALTOR® Judi Stull of Columbia MD:
  
  Did you know?
  
     * The first Easter Baskets were made to look like bird's nests?
     * The traditional act of painting eggs is calledPysanka or Pysanki? - The Ukranians make some gorgeous carved and dyed Easter Eggs.  Early colored eggs were wrapped in gold leaf (if one was rich) or were colored by boiling them wrapped in leaves or petals of certain flowers if one was a peasant.
      * The custom of giving or exchanging eggs in the spring (called Eastre in ancient Saxon England) dates back to the ancient Greeks, Romans, Gauls, Egyptians and Persians, to whom the egg was a symbol of life.
      * The Easter Bunny is based on the earthly symbol of a rabbit which represented the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eastre who was worshipped in the Spring.
      * Easter is not just converged with the pagan celebrations of Spring and rebirth, but also joins with the traditions of the Jewish festival of Pesach or Passover which is celebrated for eight days and commemorates the flight from Egypt and freedom of theIsraelites from slavery.
      * Easter is now celebrated on various days because it is the first Sunday following the full moon on or after March 21, the Spring (Vernal) Equinox.
      * Easter was not widely celebrated in America until after the Civil War when the Germans brought the symbol of the Easter rabbit to America.  Not many people in Japan celebrate Easter now, although they do celebrate Christmas and Halloween according to my Japanese clients.
      * Rolling eggs was a tradition on the Monday after Easter for many early American families.  Some believe the traditional Washington DC Easter Egg Roll began with Dolly Madison, but some believe it started earlier with the Lincoln administration. Public egg rolling celebrations were held on the lawn of the Capitol accordingto news accounts from 1872, but the children caused such a disturbance to the lawns that in 1876 the Turf Protection Law was passed to prohibit the area from being used as a playground.  Families were so upset in 1878 at not being able to use the area for an Egg Rolling celebration, that they either stormed the White House or President Rutherford B. Hayes was alerted to their "plight" and opened the gates to the South Lawn, beginning the traditional White House Easter Egg Roll.
  
  Judi Stull

RE/MAX Advantage Realty
Visit Judi's website at:  SeeMarylandHomes.com

Thanks for the fun Easter Facts Judi!

I trust Judi that the above is all correct  and wish everyone in Columbus Ohio and elsewhere a Happy Easter,  Passover,  Eastre or just plain spring.

I was sure Buckeye Chuck would not see his shadow.  I was sure we would have an early spring... we have not had a winter... yet.

I should post a Groundhogs Day Greeting to my blog but I am so depressed.  Six weeks more of winter!  The trees are budding.  My daffodils are coming up.  Is it fixed?  Do "they"  just say he saw his shadow because it is six weeks to spring on the calendar?  Why do they get my hopes up? Did any of the US and Canadian groundhogs see their shadows?

I had such high hopes.

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