Sunday, March 20, 2011 marked the vernal equinox, and what many people in the Northern Hemisphere — particularly the U.S. — refer to as the first day of spring.
Today, Monday, March 21st, this is the view I had of the eastern skies. A glorious sun was rising rapidly at 7.44 am EST, the skies were blue, and the temperature was 44 degrees Fahrenheit.
I couldn’t help but pull out my phone camera to take these beautiful shots from my car (heading East, of course!). Thanks to Daylight-Savings-Time (DST) that we switched over to two weeks ago (how very clever of us to have moved our clocks up by one hour!), the days will certainly continue to grow and grow, until they get so long on the date of the summer equinox on June 22nd or thereabouts, that we’ll then have to bid adieu to DST and await the winter equinox.
And so, the show goes on! Long days, short nights, big suns, blue skies, you get the idea…
