Turning of the Days

Categories: Sports , Home & Gardening , Mystery & Suspense , Travel , Outdoors & Nature , Nonfiction , Poetry

The Vernal Equinox comes every year in the Northern Hemisphere around March 20. Spring arrives! Day and night, for one 24-hour period, are equal. 

I find that springtime light brings a lifting of moods and a deep contentment that never fails to brighten my spirits. I have dug up a variety of books from a variety of subject areas, all about spring:

Chasing Spring: an American Journey Through a Changing Season Bruce Stutz writes about following spring from the Gulf of Mexico to the Alaskan arctic, experiencing renewal and joy at the beauty of the awakening season.

Boys of Spring: Timeless Portraits from the Grapefruit League, 1947-2005 Ozzie Sweet is a renowned photographer, and this book of baseball photographs will get you in the mood for a game.

Everything for Spring: A Complete Activity Book for Teachers of Young Children: Activities for March, April, and May Spring fever is especially rampant in classrooms. These activities will help keep our youngest students busy.

The beautiful symphonic works of Aaron Copeland's Appalachian Spring and The Tender Land cannot fail to move you; available on CD or cassette.

Springtime mystery can be enjoyed in Ann Ripley's Death at the Spring Plant Sale, a cozy mystery from the author's gardening mysteries series.

The Library has many gardening books and DVDs. Two good examples: Rebecca's Garden, Volume 3: Spring Gardening on DVD, and the brand-new book The Way We Garden Now by Katherine Whiteside. They will inspire you to dig and plant both flowers and vegetables.

Douglas Florian's Handsprings: Poems and Paintings is a juvenile book, but it expresses the lightness and change of the springtime season and can be enjoyed by every age.

Robert Browning's Home Thoughts From Abroad paints a beautiful word portrait of spring. "Oh to be in England, now that April's there..."