Spring Equinox

“For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing birds is come . . .”
     — Song of Solomon 2:11

Fresh tulips at the Pike Place Market

“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
     — Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder