"The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings."
- Joyce Kilmer, Spring
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"The afternoon is bright,
with spring in the air,
a mild March afternoon,
with the breath of April stirring,
I am alone in the quiet patio
looking for some old untried illusion -
some shadow on the whiteness of the wall
some memory asleep
on the stone rim of the fountain,
perhaps in the air
the light swish of some trailing gown."
- Antonio Machado, 1875-1939
Selected
Poems, #3, Translated by Alan S. Trueblood
"Each leaf,
each blade of grass
vies for attention.
Even weeds
carry tiny blossoms
to astonish us."
- Marianne Poloskey, Sunday
in Spring
"March is a month
of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal
of the country the weather is still so violent and changeable that outdoor
activity in our
yards seems light years away."
- Thalassa Cruso
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"The word 'March' comes from the Roman 'Martius'. This was originally the
first month of the Roman calendar and was named after Mars, the god of war.
March was the beginning of our calendar year. We changed to the 'New Style' or
'Gregorian calendar in 1752, and it is only since then when we the year began on
1st January. The Anglo-Saxons called the month Hlyd monath which means Stormy
month, or Hraed monath which means Rugged month. All through Lent the
traditional games played are marbles and skipping. The games were stopped on the
stroke of twelve noon on Good Friday, which in some places was called Marble Day
or Long Rope Day. The game of marbles has been played for hundreds of
years and some historians say that it might have been started by rolling eggs.
In the past, round stones, hazelnuts, round balls of baked clay and even cherry
stones have been used."
-
Facts About March
“Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went
on. `I do,' Alice hastily replied; `at least - at least I mean what I say -
that's the same thing, you know.'”
- Lewis Carroll
"The sun is brilliant in the sky but its
warmth does not reach my face.
The breeze stirs the trees but leaves my hair unmoved.
The cooling rain will feed the grass but will not slake my thirst.
It is all inches away but further from me than my dreams."
- M. Romeo LaFlamme, The
First of March
"I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."
- William Wordsworth, Daffodils
"Last day of Winter,
leafless walnut trees--
form is emptiness.
First day of Spring,
clear sky to Mt. Shasta--
emptiness is form."
- Michael P. Garofalo,
Cuttings: March
On the Vernal Equinox, around March 21st, in Sacramento, California,
we have around
12 Hours of Daylight and 12 Hours of Darkness.
"Equal dark, equal light
Flow in Circle, deep insight
Blessed Be, Blessed Be
The transformation of energy!
So it flows, out it goes
Three-fold back it shall be
Blessed Be, Blessed Be
The transformation of energy!"
- Night An'Fey, Transformation of Energy
"March is the month of expectation,
The things we do not know,
The Persons of Prognostication
Are coming now.
We try to sham becoming firmness,
But pompous joy
Betrays us, as his first betrothal
Betrays a boy."
- Emily Dickinson, XLVIII
"The first day of spring was once the
time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance
to set an example in fertility for
nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase."
- E.B. White, "Hot Weather," One
Man's Meat, 1944
by Cecile Andrews
by
Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart. This
is a valuable collection of information, poetry, rituals, songs, and craft
activities for seasonal celebrations.
"Spring is when you feel like
whistling even with a shoe full of slush."
- Doug Larson
"The March wind roars
Like a lion in the sky,
And makes us shiver
As he passes by.
When winds are soft,
And the days are warm and clear,
Just like a gentle lamb,
Then spring is here."
- Author Unknown
"Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough."
- A. E. Houseman, Shropshire Lad
"Spring is nature's way of saying,
"Let's party!"
- Robin Williams
"All Nature seems
at work. Slugs leave their lair
The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing,
And Winter slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Ere frost-flower and snow-blossom faded and
fell,
and the splendor of winter had passed out
of sight,
The ways of the woodlands were fairer and stranger
than dreams that fulfill us in sleep with
delight;
The breath of the mouths of the winds had hardened on tree-tops
and branches that glittered and swayed
Such wonders and glories of blossom like snow
or of frost that outlightens all flowers
till it fade
That the sea was not lovelier than here was the land,
nor the night than the day, nor the day
than the night,
Nor the winter sublimer with storm than the spring:
such mirth had the madness and might in
thee made,
March, master of winds, bright minstrel and marshal of storms
that enkindle the season they smite."
- Algernon C. Swinburne, March:
An Ode
"Today is the day when bold kites fly,
When cumulus clouds roar across the sky.
When robins return, when children cheer,
When light rain beckons spring to appear.
Today is the day when daffodils bloom,
Which children pick to fill the room,
Today is the day when grasses green,
When leaves burst forth for spring to be seen."
- Robert McCracken, Spring
"Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers in the
flowers today;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees."
- Robert Frost, A Prayer in Spring
by Sally Roth
by Patricia Montley. Respectful and engaging review. 
by E. Barrie Kavasch
by Jason Hunt
"This hill
crossed with broken pines and maples
lumpy with the burial mounds of
uprooted hemlocks (hurricane
of ’38) out of their
rotting hearts generations rise
trying once more to become
the forest
just beyond them
tall enough to be called trees
in their youth like aspen a bouquet
of young beech is gathered
they still wear last summer’s leaves
the lightest brown almost translucent
how their stubbornness has decorated
the winter woods"
- Grace Paley, A Walk in March
"The cock is crowing,
The stream is flowing,
The small birds twitter,
The lake doth glitter,
The green field sleeps in the sun;
The oldest and youngest
Are at work with the strongest;
The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising;
There are forty feeding like one!
Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated,
And now doth fare ill
On the top of the bare hill;
The Plowboy is whooping-anon-anon:
There's joy in the mountains;
There's life in the fountains;
Small clouds are sailing,
The rain is over and gone!"
-
William Wordsworth, March
by Ashleen O'Gaea. A good
study of four spring and summer celebrations that is rich with details and ideas.
by Edain McCoy. Practical suggestions for seasonal holiday celebrations.
"Easter, also called Pascha, is the most important
religious feast in the
Christian
liturgical year.
It celebrates the
resurrection of Jesus, which Christians believe occurred on the third
day after his
crucifixion some time in the period AD 27 to 33. Many non-religious
cultural elements have become part of the holiday, and those aspects are
often celebrated by many Christians and non-Christians alike. Easter also refers to the
season of the church year called
Eastertide or the
Easter Season. Traditionally the Easter Season lasted for the forty days
from Easter Day until
Ascension Day but now officially lasts for the fifty days until
Pentecost.
The first week of the Easter Season is known as Easter Week or the
Octave of Easter. Easter is termed a
moveable feast because it is not fixed in relation to the
civil calendar. Easter falls at some point between late March and late
April each year (early April to early May in
Eastern Christianity), following the cycle of the moon. After several
centuries of disagreement, all churches accepted the computation of the
Alexandrian Church (now the
Coptic Church) that Easter is the first Sunday after the first
fourteenth day of the moon (the
Paschal Full Moon) that is on or after
March 21
(the ecclesiastical spring, or vernal,
equinox)."
- Easter in Wikipedia
"The spring is coming by many a sign;
The trays are up, the hedges broken down
That fenced the haystack, and the remnant shines
Like some old antique fragment weathered brown.
And where suns peep, in every sheltered place,
The little early buttercups unfold
A glittering star or two- till many trace
The edges of the blackthorn clumps in gold.
And then a little lamb bolts up behind
The hill, and ways his tail to meet the yoe;
And then another, sheltered from the wind,
Lies all his length as dead - and lets me go
Close by, and never stirs, but basking lies,
With legs stretched out as though he could not rise."
- John Clare, Young Lambs
"For in spite of the
snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always
winter."
- Janet Frame
“Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of
wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the
year.”
- Ogden Nash
"Ahh, the wide almond groves in full white flower
Stunning in the morning sun.
Old naked Winter in his garb of grays and browns has run.
Forsythia blooms come and go in the blink of a yellow Eye,
Then, suddenly, mysteriously, Green erupts; and we sigh."
- Michael P.
Garofalo, Cuttings
"It was
cold and windy, scarcely the day
to take a walk on that long beach
Everything was withdrawn as far as possible,
indrawn: the tide far out, the ocean shrunken,
seabirds in ones or twos.
The rackety, icy, offshore wind
numbed our faces on one side;
disrupted the formation
of a lone flight of Canada geese;
and blew back the low, inaudible rollers
in upright, steely mist."
- Elizabeth
Bishop, The End of March
Selected by Barbara Rogansky
Selected by Robert Atwan
Edited by Gary Schmidt
Selected by Christina Hardyment
by Helen Thompson
Selected by Carolyn Edwards
by Caitlin Matthews
"St. Patrick's Day
is here, you see.
We'll pick some
shamrocks, one, two, three.
We'll count the
leaves and look them over,
And maybe find a
four-leafed clover.
I'll sew green
buttons on my vest,
Green for St.
Patrick is the best.
I'll wear a green
hat, very high,
And dance a jig--at
least I'll try!"
- Author Unknown
"March said to April,
I see three hogs upon a hill;
And if you'll lend me three days
I'll find a way to make them go.
The first of them was wind and wet
The second of them was snow and sleet,
The third of them was such a freeze
It froze the birds' noses to the trees.
When the three days were past and gone
The three silly hogs cam limping home."
"It was one
of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when
it is summer
in the light, and winter in the shade."
- Charles Dickens
"No winter
lasts forever; no spring skips its turn."
- Hal Borland
"A light
exists in Spring
Not present in the year
at any other period
When March is scarcely here."
- Emily Dickinson
"You ask me why I dwell in the green
mountain;
I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care.
As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown,
I have a world apart that is not among men."
- Li Bai
by Brian Nelson
Detailed annual calendar and engaging short essays. 
by Victor Mair
"The
Jewish Passover usually
falls on the first full moon
after the Northern Hemisphere vernal equinox, although occasionally (7 times
every 19 years) it will occur on the second full moon. The
Christian churches
calculate
Easter as the first Sunday
after the first full moon on or after the March equinox. The official church
definition for the equinox is March 21; however, as the
Eastern Orthodox Churches use the older
Julian calendar,
while the Western Churches use the
Gregorian calendar,
both of which designate March 21 as the equinox, the actual
date of Easter
differs. The earliest possible Easter date in any year is therefore March 22 on
each calendar. The latest possible Easter date in any year is April 25."
- Vernal (Spring) Equinox
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so
pleasant."
- Anne Bradstreet
"The sun
is hotter than the top ledge in a steam bath;
The ravine, crazed, is rampaging below.
Spring -- that corn-fed, husky milkmaid --
Is busy at her chores with never a letup.
The snow is wasting (pernicious anemia --
See those branching veinlets of impotent blue?)
Yet in the cowbarn life is burbling, steaming,
And the tines of pitchforks simply glow with health.
These days -- these days, and these nights also!
With eavesdrop thrumming its tattoos at noon,
With icicles (cachectic!) hanging on to gables,
And with the chattering of rills that never sleep!
All doors are flung open -- in stable and in cowbarn;
Pigeons peck at oats fallen in the snow;
And the culprit of all this and its life-begetter--
The pile of manure -- is pungent with ozone."
- Boris
Pasternak, March
"O the green things growing, the green things
growing,
The faint sweet smell of the green things growing!
I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve,
Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing."
- Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Green
Things Growing
"The last fling
of winter is over ... The earth, the soil itself, has a dreaming quality
about it. It is warm
now to the touch; it has come alive; it hides secrets that in a moment, in a
little while, it will tell."
- Donald Culross Peattie
“With vision there is no room to be frightened., No reason
for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive!”
- Charles R. Swindoll
[The energy of the month of march may be related to a second
meaning of 'march' as in walking, long trek, walking in a military campagin,
marching in a coordinated manner in a group.]
"Springtime is the land awakening.
The March winds are the morning yawn."
- Lewis Grizzard and Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You
"Gone were but
the Winter,
Come were but the Spring,
I would go to a covert
Where the birds sing;
Where in the whitethorn
Singeth a thrush,
And a robin sings
In the holly-bush.
Full of fresh scents
Are the budding boughs
Arching high over
A cool green house:
Full of sweet scents,
And whispering air
Which sayeth softly:
We spread no snare;
Here dwell in safety,
Here dwell alone,
With a clear stream
And a mossy stone.
Here the sun shineth
Most shadily;
Here is heard an echo
Of the far sea,
Though far off it be."
- Christina Rossetti, Spring Quiet
"Through all the frozen
winter
My nose has grown most lonely
For lovely, lovely, colored smells
That come in springtime only.
The purple smell of lilacs,
The yellow smell that blows
Across the air of meadows
Where bright forsythia grows.
The tall pink smell of peach trees,
The low white smell of clover,
And everywhere the great green smell
Of grass the whole world over."
- Kathryn Worth, Smells
"A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King."
- Emily Dickenson, # 103
"Autumn arrives
in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."
- Elizabeth Bowen
"To
be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."
-
George Santayana
"Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty."
- William Shakespeare
by Christopher Hill
by Ian Corrigan. Thoughtful poems and rituals for seasonal holidays by a
lively and wise Bard. 
by Clare Cooper Marcus
"The name Ostara goes back to
Jacob
Grimm, who, in his Deutsche Mythologie, speculated about an ancient
German goddess Ostara, after whom the
Easter festival
(German:
Ostern) could have been named.
Grimm's main source is
De temporum ratione by the
Venerable Bede. Bede had put forward the thesis that the
Anglo-Saxon name for the month of
April,
Eostur-monath, was named after a goddess
Eostre. Ostara is one of the four lesser
Wiccan holidays
or sabbats of the
Wheel of the Year. Ostara is celebrated on the spring equinox, in the
Northern hemisphere around
March 21
and in the Southern hemisphere around
September 23, depending upon the specific timing of the equinox. Among the
Wiccan sabbats, it is preceded by
Imbolc and
followed by
Beltane. In the book Eight Sabbats for Witches by Janet and Stewart Farrar, the
festival Ostara is characterized by the rejoining of the
Mother Goddess and her lover-consort-son, who spent the winter months in
death. Other variations include the young God regaining strength in his youth
after being born at
Yule, and the Goddess returning to her Maiden aspect. Ostara is the
virgin Goddess of spring. This holiday concerns the deity's trip to the
underworld, and their struggle to return from the Land of the Dead to Earth.
When they accomplish this return, they have a life renewed. It was considered
bad luck to wear anything new before Ostara, so the people would work through
the winter in secret to make elegant clothes for the Sabbat celebration. The
entire community would gather for games, feasting, and religious rituals while
showing off their clothing. The modern belief that eggs are delivered by a rabbit known as the Easter
Bunny comes from the legend of the Goddess Eostre. So much did a lowly rabbit
want to please the Goddess that he laid the sacred eggs in her honor, gaily
decorated them, and humbly presented them to her. So pleased was she that she
wished all humankind to share in her joy. In honor of her wishes, the rabbit
went through the entire world and distributed these little decorated gifts of
life"
- Ostara in Wikipedia
"Winds of March, we
welcome you,
There is work for you to do.
Work and play and blow all day,
Blow the Winter wind away."
"March bustles in on windy feet
And sweeps my doorstep and my street.
She washes and cleans with pounding rains,
Scrubbing the earth of winter stains.
She shakes the grime from carpet green
Till naught but fresh new blades are seen.
Then, house in order, all neat as a pin,
She ushers gentle springtime in."
- Susan Reiner, Spring Cleaning
"Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to
be only one of his instruments, not the composer."
- Geoffrey Charlesworth
by Kathy Ross 
by Joanne Weir
by Helen Thompson
by Nancy Castaldo
"Buttercups and
daisies,
Oh, the pretty flowers;
Coming ere the spring time,
To tell of sunny hours.
When the trees are leafless;
When the fields are bare;
Buttercups and daisies
Spring up here and there."
- Mary Howitt
"March!
March! March! They are coming
In troops to the tune of the wind.
Redheaded woodpeckers drumming,
Gold - crested thrushes behind;
Sparrows in brown jackets, hopping
Past every gateway and door;
Finches, with crimson caps, stopping
Just where they stopped before.
March! March! March! They are slipping
Into their places at last. . .
Literature white lily buds, dripping
Under the showers that fall fast;
Buttercups, violets, roses;
Snowdrop and bluebell and pink,
Throng upon throng of sweet posies
Bending the dewdrops to drink.
March! March! March! They will hurry
Forth at the wild bugle sound,
Blossoms and birds in a flurry,
Fluttering all over the ground.
Shake out your flags, birch and willow!
Shake out your red tassels, larch!
Grass blades, up from your earth - pillow.
Hear who is calling you. . . March."
- Lucy Larcom, March
"The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You're one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,
A wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you're two months back in the middle of March."
- Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time
"For winter's rains and ruins are over,
And all the season of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins."
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon
"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
by Mark
Coleman
by
Wendy Johnson. A wise woman in touch with Earth and Mind.
"And then the rain began, the tonic, greening,
transforming rain that comes only once a year.
At gray daylight, silver drops still clung to the undersides of peach limbs;
but the rain had
stopped, and now every living blade and stalk whose destiny it is to be
green was
astonishingly green."
- Rachel Peden
"I have said that there was great pleasure in watching the ways in which different plants come through
the ground, and February and March are the months in which that can best be
seen."
- Henry N. Ellacombe
"When it' too cold for
comfort, the sun-filled garden promises that winter will be brief."
- Norman Kent Johnson
"Gwyl Canol GwenWynol or Eostre: (pronounced E-ostra,
also known as Ostara, Spring Equinox etc.), March 21-23. Time of equal day and
equal night. This is often celebrated with eggs (beginnings) and rabbits (fertiity)
... see the theme? It is now time to lay the seeds of new projects and new
directions that you have meditated on throughout the cold months. Now is the
time to start taking action. (A lot of traditions use this particular sabbat for
initiations. New roads, a new breath.) Colours for this sabbat: Purple and
Yellow. The Spring Equinox defines the season where Spring
reaches it's apex, halfway through its journey from Candlemas to Beltane.
Night and day are in perfect balance, with the powers of light on the
ascendancy. The god of light now wins a victory over his twin, the god of
darkness. In the Welsh Mabinogion, this is the day on which the restored Llew
takes his vengeance on Goronwy by piercing him with the sunlight spear. For
Llew was restored/reborn at the Winter Solstice and is now well/old enough to
vanquish his rival/twin and mate with his lover/mother. And the great Mother
Goddess, who has returned to her Virgin aspect at Candlemas, welcomes the young
sun god's embraces and conceives a child. The child will be born nine months
from now, at the next Winter Solstice. And so the cycle closes at last to begin
anew. The customs surrounding the celebration of the spring equinox were imported from
Mediterranean lands, although there can be no doubt that the first inhabitants
of the British Isles observed it, as evidence from megalithic sites shows. But
it was certainly more popular to the south, where people celebrated the holiday
as New Year's Day, and claimed it as the first day of the first sign of the
Zodiac, Aries. However you look at it, it is certainly a time of new beginnings,
as a simple glance at Nature will prove."
- Spring Equinox
"The year's at
the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in His heaven -
All's right with the world!"
- Robert Browning
"It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight
that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt.
This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on
the lights."
- Elizabeth Bowen
by Dorte Nielson
by Sally Roth
"Springtime is
the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn."
- Lewis Grizzard
"Harshness
vanished. A sudden softness
has replaced the meadows' wintry grey.
Little rivulets of water changed
their singing accents. Tendernesses,
hesitantly, reach toward the earth
from space, and country lanes are showing
these unexpected subtle risings
that find expression in the empty trees."
- Rainer Marie Rilke, Early Spring
"When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we
saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there
were more and yet more and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw
that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a
county turnpike toad. I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They
grew about the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads
upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and
reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that
blew upon them over the lake."
- Dorothy Wordsworth
"Higan, or Higan-e, is a week of Buddhist services observed in Japan
during both the spring and autumn equinoxes when day and night are equal at
length. Both equinoxes have been national holidays since the Meiji period
(1868-1912). Before World War II, they were known as koreisai, or
festivals of the Imperial ancestors. After the war, when the national
holidays were renamed, they became simply spring and autumn equinoxes. Higan
is a one-week period surrounding the spring and autumn equinoxes. It means
the “other shore” and refers to the spirits of the dead reaching Nirvana
after crossing the river of existence. It celebrates the spiritual move from
the world of suffering to the world of enlightenment and is a time to
remember the dead by visiting, cleaning and decorating their graves and
reciting sutras. Buddhist prayers, rice balls and sushi are
offered. This is a time for the Japanese to worship their imperial ancestors
and to welcome spring."
-
March Customs and Holidays
Astrological Signs: Pisces, February 19 - March 20
Astrological Signs: Aries, March 21 - April 20
February Birthstones: Aquamarine
The Spring Equinox is associated with, or known as: Alban Eilir, Eostar, Eostre, Feast of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Festival of Trees, Lady Day, NawRuz, No Ruz, Ostara, Ostra, Rites of Spring, and the Vernal Equinox.
"Where did Gabriel get a lily,
In the month of March,
When the green
Is hardly seen
On the early larch?"
- Grace James
By Edain McCoy
by Ann Morrill 
by Raven Grimassi 
by Helen Thompson
by Joanne Weir
by Ellen Jackson
"I wonder if
the sap is stirring yet,
If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate,
If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun
And crocus fires are kindling one by one:
Sing robin, sing:
I still am sore in doubt concerning Spring."
- Christina Rossetti
"One of the flowers most associated with March is the
narcissus (Wild daffodil). Named after the boy in Greek mythology, who was
changed into a flower. Narciccus is also known as Lent Lily because it
blooms in early spring and the blooms usually dropping before Easter. It is
the main daffodil species of Britain. The daffodil became a popular
Welsh symbol in the 19th Century. Lloyd George used it to symbolise Wales at
the 1911 Investiture and in official publications. In England the
daffodil inspired amongst others William Wordsworth to write his famous poem
Daffodils."
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Facts About March
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"O Love-star of the unbeloved March,
When cold and shrill,
Forth flows beneath a low, dim-lighted arch
The wind that beats sharp crag and barren hill,
And keeps unfilmed the lately torpid rill!"
- Aubrey De Vere, Ode to the Daffodil
"To what can our life on earth be likened?
To a flock of geese,
alighting on the snow.
Sometimes leaving a trace of their passage."
- Su Shi
"March is a tomboy
with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes
and a laugh in her voice."
- Hal Borland
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Ancient
Ways by Pauline Campanelli. Wonderful folk celebrations for the
seasons.
April: Quotes, Poems, Sayings, Lore, Gardening Chores
The Art of Ritual by Renee Beck
Celebrate the Earth: A Year of Holidays by Laurie Cabot and Jean Mills.
Celebrating the Seasons of Life: Beltane to Mabon by Ashleen O'Gaea. A good study of four spring and summer celebrations that is rich in details and ideas.
Creating Circles and Ceremonies: Rituals for all Seasons and Reasons by Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart. This is a valuable collection of information, poetry, rituals, songs, and craft activities for seasonal celebrations.
Dionysus (Greek) or Bacchus (Roman)
A Druid's Herbal for the Sacred Year by Ellen Evert Hopman. Thorough research on the uses and lore of herbs.
Exploring the Northern Tradition by Galina Drasskova
March - Mystical World Wide Web
Cuttings - March. Haiku and short poems by Michael P. Garofalo.
Earth Calendar - Seasonal Holidays
Earth Day (March 21st) Links - Open Directory
February: Quotes, Poems, Links, Lore
The Green Man (Personification of the Powers of Spring and Summer): Lore, Quotes, Bibliography, Customs
Hounen Matsuri Festival, Japan. Celebration of the male aspect of fertility.
In Nature's Honor: Myths And Rituals Celebrating The Earth
The Magickal Year: A Pagan Perspective on the Natural World by Diana Ferguson
March: Quotes, Poems, Sayings, Lore, Gardening Chores
Martius Calendar, Societas Via Roma By M. Moravius Horatius Piscinus.
Months of the Year Quotes, Poems, Sayings, Lore, Gardening Chores
Nature Spirits: Fairies, Elves, Alfs, Wights, Didhe, Devas, Little Folk
One Old Druid's Final Journey: The Notebooks of the Librarian of Gushen Grove
Ostara, Spring Equinox Celebration
Pagan Prayers by Ceisiwr Serith. A wonderful collection of thoughtful prayers and reflections.
Pathways in the Green Valley Blog
Pulling Onions by Mike Garofalo
Quinquatria, Roman Festival in honour of Minerva, March 19 - March 23. Minerva is the Roman Goddess, and the Greek Goddess with similar attributes is Athena, Patron of Athens. This ancient Goddess is associated with civilization, wisdom, strength, strategy, poetry, weaving, magic, music, crafts, justice, and skills. Her totem is the owl. She is a virgin goddess, Pallas Athena, where she is one of three virgin goddesses along with Artemis and Hestia, known by the Romans as Diana and Vesta. Minerva/Athna is featured on the great seal of the State of California.
Minerva By Susan S.
Boulet
Athena by Gustav Klimt
Athena
Quotes for Gardeners. Over
3,800 quotes arranged
by over 250 topics.
Red Bluff, California. Natural History Studies at our Home and Gardens. By Karen and Mike Garofalo.
The Sabbats: A New Approach to Living the Old Ways by Edain McCoy. Practical suggestions for seasonal holiday celebrations.
Sacred Fire, Holy Well by Ian Corrigan. Thoughtful poems and rituals for seasonal holidays by a true Bard.
Saint Patrick's Day - Yahoo Links
The Solitary Druid by Robert Ellison Includes information on eight seasonal celebrations.
The Solitary Witch by Silver Ravenwolf
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess by Starhawk
Spring Equinox Wiccan Overview
Spring: Quotes, Poems, Sayings, and Lore
Spring: Links and Ideas for Teachers
Vernal (Spring) Equinox Science, facts, lore.
Walkers Between the Worlds by Caitlin Matthews. A practical guide to the mystical path.
Wheel of the Year, High Days, Seasonal Celebrations, NeoPagan Holidays
Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham
Winter - Quotes, Poems, Sayings, and Lore
Wisdom of the Elements: The Sacred Wheel of Earth, Air, Fire and Water by Margie McArthur
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Typical Weather
for Our Area Normally, in March, we have daytime high
temperatures of 64ºF, nighttime low temperatures of 42ºF, and we get 2.7 inches
of rain.
Our Paths in the Valley Blog Follow the seasons in the Northern California garden of Karen and Mike with their notes, links, resources, quotes, poems, and photos.
Weather Lore More Weather Lore Naturalist's Almanac
March weather sayings:
When March comes in like a lion it goes out like a lamb.
So many mists in March, so many frosts in May.
April borrows three days from March and their all ill.
A wet March, a wet Spring.
As it rains in March so it rains in June.
March winds and April showers
Bring forth May flowers.
A dry March and a wet May
Fill barns and bays with corn and hay.
When your bones hurt a storm is coming.
If it rains on Easter Sunday, it will rain every Sunday for seven weeks.
When bees stay close to the hive rain is close by.
Count the cricket chirps to tell the temperature.
Moss dry, sunny sky; moss wet, rain you'll get.
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Typical Weather for Our Area Normally, in March, we have daytime high temperatures of 64ºF, nighttime low temperatures of 42ºF, and we get 2.7 inches of rain.
Red Bluff Gardening Notebooks of Karen and Mike Garofalo
Our Paths in the Valley Blog Follow the seasons in the Northern California garden of Karen and Mike with their notes, links, resources, quotes, poems, and photos.
Browsing and ordering from seed and garden catalogs.
Planting potted trees and shrubs.
Placing cold sensitive potted plants in protected areas or indoors.
Pruning and mulching dormant trees and vines.
Repairing and sharpening tools.
Fertilizing with 16-16-16 or manure.
Planting seeds in containers in the greenhouse.
Planting some vegetable starts in the ground.
Watering as needed.
Removing deadwood from trees and shrubs.
Moving bulbs.
Raking up fallen twigs and branches.
Weeding around the base of small trees and shrubs.
Mowing and weeding as needed.
Cleaning and repairing drip irrigation lines.
Making up To Do lists.
Spring Cleaning inside the house.
Spraying dormant trees and shrubs.
Painting fences and art objects as needed.
Bringing spring flowers indoors to enjoy.
Developing Spring Resolutions for personal improvements.
Fixing up lawn mowers and other power tools for outdoor work.
Earth Wise Creations March Tips - Zone 9
Seasonal Garden Chores - Links
Top Garden Projects for March in the Pacific Northwest by Ed Hume
52 Weeks in the California Garden by Richard Smaus
March Gardening Tips from Ortho
The Garden Helper Tips for March - Northern U.S.
Gardening Tips - March - New York Botanical Garden
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Red Bluff Gardens - Comparison from 1998 - 2007
Red Bluff Gardening Notebooks of Karen and Mike Garofalo
Our Paths in the Valley Blog Follow the seasons in the Northern California garden of Karen and Mike with their notes, links, resources, quotes, poems, and photos.
All photographs taken by Karen Garofalo.
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