Internets! Tell me of Spring!

[squeequeg]

[Poll #1153085]

Comments

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Also, I've always considered the 21st to be the equinox (since many people call 12/21 the shortest day of the year and 6/21 the longest.)

(also it is my birthday and I like the idea of having been born on an equinox...)

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

I think it's one of those dates that shuffles around depending on...er...sun and things...and so I went with what was on Wikipedia. But you're right, the 21st has a certain cachet that matches the solstices.

[pseudosilence.livejournal.com]

Hah. I thumb my warm and sunny LA nose at you all!

(but of course, we don't get crocuses here, how sad...)

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Oooo! Darn you and your warm and sunniness! I wave my bundle of barren twigs at you!

[2h2o.livejournal.com]

We have daffodils!

Also, in my first attempt to pronounce "Piemas," is came out as "P.M.S." Oops.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Different holiday entirely. It's a little like Festivus, in that there's much Airing of Grievances.

[megastoat.livejournal.com]

BWAH!! :)

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

re: Cadbury's eggs: my answer shoulda been, "All of the above".
So addictive! So disturbing!

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

That stuff in the middle? I bet it's Shoggoth extract.

[cincodemaygirl.livejournal.com]

We have forsythias here! I am delighted every time I see one!

There are ORANGE Cadbury Creme Eggs! They are a little chemical-y but mainly delicious.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Forsythia! Forsythia makes everything better.

I've heard of mint Cadbury Creme Eggs. With green yolks. This...worries me.

[silvarwyrm.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen enough of the outside of my office building to know what season it is :P However, I started buying Easter goodies at CVS at least three weeks ago. I have decided that, as much as I like dark choco, the dark choco Robin's Eggs are far inferior to the original milk choco ones.

Also, I would like to state that the Japanese get the Vernal Equinox off as a national holiday. Lucky bastards.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Dark chocolate Robin's Eggs? Weird. Just...weird.

[pirateofcatan.livejournal.com]

Mixing the dark and milk is the best way to go.

[minyan.livejournal.com]

Can you still stomp Leprechauns if they're really all seven feet tall, like Neil Gaiman said? (I've been wondering ever since I read the book if he's right about that — that they're called The Little People with a kind of humorous irony, like calling a tiger a tabby and hoping it won't bite....)

There's winter aconite in CT, and skunk cabbage, and pussy willow, so they must exist somewhere around here! :-)

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

You have to aim for their feet in that case, but yes. And then you will want to run away, very fast.

The real problem is leperchauns. Shamrock-covered limbs everywhere...

[mindways]

I always treated the words "mud season" casually until a couple years ago, when I went on a trip to Vermont in late March. It was... impressive. Brown, boggy, and impressive. o.O

(And according to my calendar, we're just past Deep Winter into Early Spring. Millenia of centuries and tradition? Bah! I see six seasons!)

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

You see six seasons? I see crocuses! Right there, across the street!

Yeah, mud season takes on new meaning when you live in what used to be a swamp. Although I seem to remember the big floods all happening in summer.

[sexybadpnomamma.livejournal.com]

I am from Vermont, and the boys in my high school class went "muddin'" on weekends. This means that they got in behemoth pickup trucks, found the biggest patch of mud they could, and spun the wheels as hard as possible to cover themselves with mud. Seriously: that's what you do for fun when you live in the middle of nowhere in mud season!

[thomascantor.livejournal.com]

A sermon that I heard one time in a church I used to sing for mentioned the idea of six seasons, and I think it is rather fitting. The preacher used the terms locking and unlocking to refer to early spring and late fall, respectively.