Celebrations of Spring!

We are celebrating Nor Ruz - the Persian New Year which starts at the vernal equinox. It's nice to see other people marking the arrival of spring.

We are celebrating Nor Ruz - the Persian New Year which starts at the vernal equinox. It's nice to see other people marking the arrival of spring.

Happy Nor Ruz Britwife! What sorts of things do you do to celebrate?

Mainly eat a lot (especially sweet things)! We also have a special table set up called the "haft-seen" ("7 S") which has items on it to symbolise or welcome spring. This goes on for 2 weeks. There's quite a good summary of the traditional celebrations in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz

Mainly eat a lot (especially sweet things)!

   Sounds good!

We are celebrating Nor Ruz - the Persian New Year which starts at the vernal equinox. It's nice to see other people marking the arrival of spring.

Happy Nor Ruz!

Sadly, my spring is going to be interrupted with 3-9" of snow tomorrow.  Whee.

interesting "Nor Ruz", at first glance I thought it was a scouser dialect slang reference

'Not Us'

Forgive me, spring is a wonderful time unless you're stationed in Fargo ND, those poor folks are not looking to a spring thaw

I've been getting too hot at night under the autumn/winter duvet, so I finally got off the fence and put the summer one on.  Although this week is supposed to be chillier again.  Hope I haven't made the move too soon, and end up freezing overnight. 

Then again, the idea of a 'summer' duvet makes me lol, because IMO, you shouldn't need a duvet at all in what I would consider a 'proper' summer (hot!) - just a sheet, if even that.  Maybe I should call it the spring duvet?

How's the spring looking where you are?  The daffs are out in profusion here finally (late season this year) & our tulips are getting ready to bloom now.  If only we could have some warmer weather!

If only we could have some warmer weather!

This!  With knobs on   I am not a hot weather person and would be perfectly happy if the temperature never got above 25, but it's nearly May FFS, and still only 2 or 3 degrees in the morning.  I can't leave my tomato plants out overnight and I'm concerned about the other stuff we've planted.  We planted really late, and it's still so cold.  But at least the sun has made an appearance! 

The daffs are more or less over down here now. But our camellias and rhododendrons are out in full force!

I use the same duvet year-round. It just gets topped up with an extra blanket in the winter. But I certainly have been known to sleep with just a sheet on hot summer nights! Not last summer, I grant you.

The daffs are more or less over down here now. But our camellias and rhododendrons are out in full force!

Sounds lovely!  I was glad I got to see the daffs when I was down there.  I had never seen whole fields of daffodils before!    Fields & fields of them!

Sounds lovely!  I was glad I got to see the daffs when I was down there.  I had never seen whole fields of daffodils before!    Fields & fields of them!

Love the daffs!  We switched over to the lighter duvet a couple weeks ago, but we've also got a small (single sized) this duvet I use on top if needed--just my side as hubby tends to be more warm than me.

I remember the wasteful non-environmentally friendly days of hot hot Phildelphia nights under thick blankets with the air-conditioning turned up full-blast!  (My ex was a baker and spent his days in a hot kitchen so he refused to be anything less than in the deep freeze at night....)

Today sure feels like spring! The daffies are up, which is lovely and I bet today I'll hear the ice cream van in the park.....

Little fuzzy goslings!

It's still freezing up here, though part of the weekend was pretty nice and all the daffs are out. On Saturday, I even got to take off my hoodie and walk around in short sleeves for the first time since last summer.  Too bad it turned cold and rainy on Sunday and hasn't warmed up since. 

Today sure feels like spring!

OMG, the sun is out, but I think it's frickin' freezing today!  And we still needed the winter duvet for last night, so it was brrrrrr-chilly under the summer one.  I had to wear some jimmy-jams and DH had to snuggle up to me so we could keep warm enough.

Heat!  I need me some heat!