With a little figurine for texture

Here's my little Stormie playing tourist at the Stansteed stone circle site on this gorgeous spring day! :o) Click here to see the begining of the story.

Voici mon petit Stormie jouant le touriste au site du cercle de pierre de Stanstead pendant cette splendide journée printanière! :o) Cliquez ici pour voir le début de l'histoire.

In bloom to celebrate the spring equinox.

l'air sent si bon !

les arbres sont entrain d'écrire

leurs lettres d'amour

air smells so good !

there are trees writing

their love letters

kaip kvepia oras !

tai medžiai rašo

meilės laiškus...

This LASCO C2 image, taken 8 January 2002, shows a widely spreading coronal mass ejection (CME) as it blasts more than a billion tons of matter out into space at millions of kilometers per hour. The C2 image was turned 90 degrees so that the blast seems to be pointing down. An EIT 304 Angstrom image from a different day was enlarged and superimposed on the C2 image so that it filled the occulting disk for effect.

Credit: NASA/GSFC/SOHO/ESA

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This photograph of a redbud was taken on March 20, 2008 in Austin, Texas.

This is what Spring looks like in our neck of the woods today.

Looking a bit more spring-like than yesterday!

Poole 20.03.2018

The horizontal image of Seven Moai from Ahu Akivi, Easter Island, Chile.

Ahu Akivi is a particular sacred place in Rapa Nui (or Easter Island), looking out towards the Pacific Ocean.The site has seven moai, all of equal shape and size, and is also known as a celestial observatory that was set up around the 16th century.

The site is located inland, rather than along the coast. Moai statues were considered by the early people of Rapa Nui as their ancestors, whom they worshipped as their deity, Make Make.

A particular feature of the seven identical moai statues is that they exactly face sunset during the Spring Equinox and have their backs to the sunrise during the Autumn Equinox. Such an astronomically precise feature is seen only at this location on the island.

From a day-after observance at work (not bad, given that Nowruz fell on a Sunday).

A tasty cookie that was almost too pretty to eat!

Springtime arrives today in the southern hemisphere, brightened by emergence of erect inflorescence Heliconias (Heliconia velloziana).

Guemes Channel.

Full Moon, March 2019.

Evening on the Spring Equinox.

Crown heights Brooklyn

ultramax 400

canon a-1, 50mm f/1.8

I finished my March hat for the Washington State Click for Babies program.

Newroz refers to the celebration of the traditional Iranian new year holiday of Newroz in Kurdish society. The festival of Nowruz is celebrated throughout the countries of the Middle East and Central Asia such as in Iran, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan. Newroz is also celebrated by Kurdish communities in different countries worldwide. In Kurdish legend, the holiday celebrates the deliverance of the Kurds from a tyrant, and it is seen as another way of demonstrating support for the Kurdish cause. The celebration coincides with the spring equinox which falls mainly on 21 March and the festival is held usually between 18 and 24 March. The festival currently has an important place in the terms of Kurdish identity for the majority of Kurds, mostly in Turkey and Syria. Though celebrations vary, people generally gather together to welcome the coming of spring; people wear coloured clothes and dance together.

This reportage illustrates Newroz's celebrations of the Kurdish community in Rome, which took place the 20th of March 2011 at Centro Ararat, Testaccio District.

We're suppose to have the fantastic solar eclipse this morning, a partial one at least but the weather powers decided that we shall have dark clouds and rain today. Those living in Northern Sweden can enjoy the solar eclipse in full view without those darn clouds, so enjoy it :-) Or if you happen to be those lucky 1100 people flying to the Faroe islands can enjoy full solar eclipse. Today is also the Spring Equinox so finally Spring has officially arrived! Enjoy! /A

Explanation: In this picture, the Sun's surface is quite dark. A frame from a movie recorded on November 9th by the orbiting TRACE telescope, it shows coronal loops lofted over a solar active region. Glowing brightly in extreme ultraviolet light, the hot plasma entrained above the Sun along arching magnetic fields is cooling and raining back down on the solar surface. Hours earlier, on November 8th, astronomers had watched this particular active region produce a not so spectacular solar flare. Still, the M-class flare spewed forth an intense storm of particles, suddenly showering satellites near the Earth with high energy protons. The flare event was also associated with a large coronal mass ejection, a massive cloud of material which impacted our fair planet's magnetic field about 31 hours later. The result ... a strong geomagnetic storm.

Credit: NASA/GSFC/TRACE

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nasascience.nasa.gov/missions/trace

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93.7% Waxing Gibbous over the Swansea Valley.

Here's a shot of the sunset over downtown Seattle last night. Some very unstable (and very cold) air in the area was producing some nice potential for some cloud drama at sunset, so decided to head to an iconic vantage point and see what happened. It didn't disappoint.

In 2003, March 20 was the first day of spring in Madison. It was also the day after the U.S. attacked Iraq. There was a peace rally on the Capitol Square that night, in a heavy mist that descended on the city like the fog of war. It was not just a meterological fog but a moral one as well, and it has never really lifted in the five long years since then. More at Letter from Here.

Saw a branch in the laneyway, dragged it up on the deck as I knew I wanted to photograph the life that was growing on it. Seen here is what I found on the web to be Letharia vulpina, wolf lichen which grows like a multiple-branched tuft or leafless mini-shrub, so it has a fruticose growth form.

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With 2012 being a leap year today is the first day of Spring here in the UK.

It has been a warm and sunny day with temperatures well above average, tonights sunset was magnificent, this is viewed on the border between South and West Yorkshire near the village of Hooton Pagnall a small hamlet between South Elmsall and Doncaster.

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Welcome Spring!

It's a whole new season of beautiful blooms!

Thanks to whatever is happening on celestial sphere!

It's a reason to be Happy on Spring Equinox!

Guemes Channel.

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STEREO (Ahead) caught the action as one edge of a single active region spurted out more than a dozen surges of plasma in less than two days (Feb. 15-16, 2010). As seen in extreme UV light, the surges were narrow and directional outbursts driven by intense magnetic activity in the active region. While these kinds of outbursts have been observed numerous times, it was the frequency of so many surges in a short span of time that caught our attention. In this wavelength of UV light we are seeing singly ionized Helium at about 60,000 degrees C.

For more information:

stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Credit: NASA/GSFC/STEREO

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春のお彼岸のおはぎ

the spring equinox, we japanese ate Ohagi dumplings.

kinako (soybean flour), aonori (green laver), anko (sweet bean jam), goma (sesame seeds)

Large blood red moon at the Spring Equinox.

After the last view behind trees, one last look from my window and it had moved.

Snowy Easter of 2008.

More about potter Ingrīda Žagata.

Some other beautiful works of her

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Spring Equinox in Bucharest, Romania was on

20 March 2018, 18:15 EET

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A large sheet of ice that stabilized along shore on the St. Lawrence River. It’s pointing to the rapid river flow created by current and wind out from the southwest. We crossed over from the calmer to the rougher wavy water and canoed rapidly with wind at our back. Imaged below...

A view of the planet after yesterday's March Equinox on 20/03/22, which occured at approximately 16:32 CET.

This means that we've marked the beginning of the astronomical spring in the Northern Hemisphere!