While temperatures are heating up and desert flowers are starting to bloom, astronomical spring won't start until later in the month.

It’s finally here. This is when my unofficial calendar says that it is now spring. No, I don’t wait until the March 20 vernal equinox, for me spring begins on March 1.

At this moment, night and day are roughly the same length, and there is an equal amount of daylight to both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. After the spring equinox, the da