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nature's annual comeback tour, where everything that looked dead starts flexing again.
means The season between winter and summer, when plants begin to grow and warmer weather returns.
from A straightforward compound of "spring" and "time." "Spring" comes from Old English springan, "to leap or burst forth" — the same verb behind water springs and jumping — and the season was named for the way plants spring up from the ground. The fuller phrase was once "springing time" or "spring of the year," which over the centuries got trimmed down to the brisk "springtime" we use now. The verb-to-season leap is a cousin of the same image in other Germanic languages, where the season ties to sprouting and rising up.
- speed record
- some plants grow visibly within hours after spring rains
- vernal equinox
- day and night briefly split exactly fifty-fifty
- pollen volume
- a single ragweed plant releases a billion grains
- melt math
- snowpack runoff feeds rivers months into summer
- baby boom
- most mammals time births to spring's food surge
cherry blossom festival japan — sakura season in tokyo and kyoto draws millions annually, peaks late march to april
kentucky derby — horse racing event held first saturday in may at churchill downs since 1875
spring equinox — march 19-21 each year marks astronomical start of spring in northern hemisphere