SPRING IN THE AIR!

Whoever gave the name 'Spring' to the season interposed between winters and summers, did a good job of it. The season actually does take off, literally. After harsh winters and before the onset of hot summers in the temperate climatic zone, brief spring provides a much needed pleasant break with pleasing colours. It is an intermediate phase between two major seasons and signifies new life. It is generally defined in the Northern Hemisphere as extending from the vernal equinox (day and night equal in length), 20 or 21 March, to the summer solstice (year’s longest day), 21 or 22 June, and in the Southern Hemisphere from 22 or 23 September to 22 or 23 December. In the Polar regions, the Spring is very short in length. Spring is the most beautiful season which dresses up nature in the richest possible manner with many colours. It brings about good, meaningful growth and vibrancy in the atmosphere.

During spring season, the Earth gradually increases its tilt towards the Sun and the length of the day increases in the relevant hemisphere. The hemisphere begins to warm and thus causes new plant growth. Snows, if present, melt and water streams swell up with excess water. Many flowering plants bloom in this season, including numerous fruit trees which then bear fruit at the onset of summers. The weather is pleasant at this time of the year, neither hot, nor cold, nature wears new clothes, flowers bloom and birds chirp. There is happiness all around and a general sense of well being prevails. 

 

Algernon Charles Swinburne wrote these lines in honour of Spring Season:

"For winter's rains and ruins are over,
And all the season of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins."