Daisies flower from April to June.
It took me 50 years to notice that lawns don’t always have daisies. They’re seasonal.
In the Northern Hemisphere, Spring is beginning. And in the wilderness, change is more obvious. Recently:
On 21st February, peewits arrived on the moor.
On 3rd March, curlews and snipe joined them.
On 18th March frogs were suddenly everywhere.
On the Spring Equinox, frogspawn filled our ponds and puddles.
Next, wild pansies will appear in verges, heralding an explosion of flowers. In May, swallows will nest in the barn. With Summer will come midges and cleggs.
In towns the changes are less obvious, but most of us have noticed snowdrops followed by crocuses, primroses, daffodils, cherry blossom, and flying ant day.
Our Western year has four seasons. The Chinese further divide these into 24 segments, and the Japanese into 72 micro-seasons. French revolutionaries went even further.
These tiny changes vary from year to year. Watch the trees, the plants, the birds, the insects, and the skies.
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