First Day of Spring - Design by Eric Carle [caption id="attachment_7852" align="aligncenter" width="276" caption="First Day of Spring, Google Doodle"][/caption] Spring begins on the Vernal Equinox and lasts until the summer solstice. In spring, the axis of the Earth is tilted toward the ...

The solstices, together with the equinoxes, are connected with the seasons. In some languages they are considered to start or separate the seasons; in others they are considered to be centre points (in English, in the Northern hemisphere, for example, ...