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<\/u><\/p>\nSpring Equinox has meaning for me as an acknowledgement of the passage of Winter. I love the ritual of it but it doesn’t always coincide with the weather.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, especially lately, Spring seems to come out meekly with a whimper and lasts for a whisper of time until Summer appears.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, we have a torrential Winter and Spring announces itself boldly with daffodils and poppies and Robins chattering.<\/p>\n
And sometimes, it’s like today. It’s my least favorite day of the year, when we “spring forward” with Daylight Savings. We had rain all morning with a downpour including hail around noon. But then the air cleared and the Sun came out and I just knew it was Spring.<\/p>\n
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The air feels different in the Spring. People stop hibernating (even if it’s just to pull weeds) and visit with the neighbors. Everything feels ready to play again after such a hard winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spring Equinox has meaning for me as an acknowledgement of the passage of Winter. I love the ritual of it but it doesn’t always coincide with the weather. Sometimes, especially lately, Spring seems to come out meekly with a whimper and lasts for a whisper of time until Summer appears. Sometimes, we have a torrential … Continue reading “Spring has Sprung”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden","category-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_3319.jpg?fit=3024%2C4032&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9fbjV-6M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}