The Equinox

Spring

Arthur Herbert Buckland

Here on the west coast, Spring "started" about 2 hours ago. As promised, it's a wet and blustery morning.

This is what I enjoy thinking about today:  The equinox is a time when the length of day and night are as close to equal as they ever get-- whether you are on the North Pole or in Seattle.

The vertical lines on the world sunlight map tell the story today. As does the big blob of clouds hanging over the dark Northwest.

Arthur Herbert Buckland (1870-1927) is a good artist for the first day of Spring.  He was a painter of romantic landscapes and portraits.  The beautiful Spring is probably his most famous painting and is widely reproduced. Other examples are relatively few and far between on the Internet, but I like the variety of his work.

Children in Stoke St. Gregory Churchyard

The Fairy and the Beetle

 Sweetpeas