Love Day In the Spring?
If anyone else, like me, equates Love Day with Valentine's Day, then it's off on the calendar. 14 February is still in Winter. Spring doesn't begin until 20 March. :open_mouth: I do wish I had caught ...
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"Benjamilian;c-18050779" wrote:
Oddly, I hear June 21st called the first day of Summer and Midsummer's Day.
As I understand it, the solstices and equinoxes are the start of the meteorological seasons, but almost everybody really brackets their seasons from months' starts - though it turns out we disagree about which months.
I read an article about that very thing. I also get annoyed when the people on the news tout Memorial Day (in my country) as the beginning of the summer season. No, that's at the end of May. As for the confusion over the start of summer and when is Midsummer, I don't know. We don't celebrate Midsummer in my country of birth. I only looked it up once, because my 7th great-grandmother, born over here, is said to have been of Scandinavian heritage. Blue eyes do run in the family …
