Vernal Equinox

[NoJo]

I'll be 35,000 feet in the air when the Vernal equinox occurs this year on March 20th.

No matter where you are on earth, the sun will rise from due East, and will set due West.

The sun will be in the sky for precisely twelve hours, rising at around 6:00 am and setting at around 6:00 PM.

Whether you're in Timbuktu, London, Buenes Ares, that's what will happen. (Unless you're in a plane, flying at almost the speed that the earth spins).

March 20th is a good day to remember that we all experience and share the same earth and the same sun.

 

[logophile]

I am ready for the equinox.
The dark part of this year has felt oppressive, not restorative.
I have felt disconnected from the world around me.

Spring.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
Yes. Spring.

 

[rgraham666]

Indeed Joe. The way we humans forget that we're all pretty much the same is one of the more depressing facets of the human psyche.

I agree, logo. Maybe it's just me but I'm finding winters harder to take each year that passes. Fortunately, this one is almost over.

 

[minsue]

March 20th is a good day to remember that we all experience and share the same earth and the same sun.

Beautifully put, Joe

 

[Liar]

And if you're standing on the north or south pole, you will have half a sun, all the day, right?

Spiffy.

 

[Guest]

Awwww, I have the warm fuzzies now. Cheers, Joe!



(Liar, Very spiffy indeed.)

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Aw Joe, you made me feel emotions. It confuses me.

 

[shereads]

March 20th is a good day to remember that we all experience and share the same earth and the same sun.

And March 21 is a good day to feel relieved that the sun didn't explode on March 20 and turn us all into a thin fog of carbon.

Edited to add: Are you going to stay at 35,000 feet? Or will you be coming down?

Edited again to add: In Miami, we greet the arrival of spring the way the way other people greet the arrival of toenail fungus.

Spring is the prelude to summer, which is like being locked inside a steam bath for six months. (If steam baths contained mosquitos, and if the wind inside steam baths was sometimes strong enough to throw cars at your head.) Spring. Bah.

 

[Belegon]

Seasons? What are those?

 

[NoJo]

Spring is the prelude to summer, which is like being locked inside a steam bath for six months. (If steam baths contained mosquitos, and if the wind inside steam baths was sometimes strong enough to throw cars at your head.) Spring. Bah.

You're like the Kryptonite, Summer verson of Scrooge, only cute.

 

[TxRad]

I agree, logo. Maybe it's just me but I'm finding winters harder to take each year that passes. Fortunately, this one is almost over.

It's not you... The older i get, the more i love the heat of summer. The cold and wet of winter just hurts the old bones and joints.

Joe, much of the younger set don't even know what the equinox is or that it comes twice a year...so much for modern education....

 

[LadyJeanne]

Thanks, Joe. I'll be in Oz trying to figure out what time zone I'm in - the sun thing should help.

 

[cantdog]

And March 21 is a good day to feel relieved that the sun didn't explode on March 20 and turn us all into a thin fog of carbon.

Edited to add: Are you going to stay at 35,000 feet? Or will you be coming down?

Edited again to add: In Miami, we greet the arrival of spring the way the way other people greet the arrival of toenail fungus.

Spring is the prelude to summer, which is like being locked inside a steam bath for six months. (If steam baths contained mosquitos, and if the wind inside steam baths was sometimes strong enough to throw cars at your head.) Spring. Bah.

It is admirable, on the whole, how the inhabitants of the subtropics bear up under the natural misfortunes of their climate. Fortitude in the face of good fortune is a virtue unlooked-for.

cantdog

You knew seasons, once, Bel. Cast your mind back. They suck, but they keep you grounded.

c

 

[cantdog]

Thanks, Joe. I'll be in Oz trying to figure out what time zone I'm in - the sun thing should help.

Or not. You'll like ozzies. It's maybe the most steadfastly egalitarian culture on the earth. Everyone is descended from convicts, so there's no sense putting on airs. And if, perchance, you aren't descended from convicts, you don't let on, because they will take special care to deflate any stuffed shirt. Ozzies are great.

I have never visited Oztraylia, but I have been to New Zealand. Kiwis do not have the egalitarian urge like Ozzies do, but they have Ozzie vowels and they drive on the Ozzie side the road. They garden, is what New Zealanders do. Everyone has a garden, a real one, where the trees count every bit as much as the flowers and the ground cover. Not only that, but every bank has a garden, every gas station, every lunch counter. Sheep, pists and gardens. You'd like New Zealand. Give us a thread with pictures when you come back. Please.

 

[minsue]

It is admirable, on the whole, how the inhabitants of the subtropics bear up under the natural misfortunes of their climate. Fortitude in the face of good fortune is a virtue unlooked-for.

cantdog

As one who also feels sad with the coming of the spring, all 2 weeks of it before summer slaps us in the face, I'd like to invite you to spend the 115-123 degree days with me this year. I'll be the puddle surrounded by feathers.

For now, I'll console myself by complaining about the spring training baseball game traffic to those of you still buried in winter. It's a hard life.

 

[R. Richard]

Thanks, Joe. I'll be in Oz trying to figure out what time zone I'm in - the sun thing should help.

I would politely point out that the "Vernal Equinox" is not the beginning of spring in OZ. Instead it is the beginning of autumn and might properly be called the "Autumnal Equinox" down under. However, there is great confusion as to exactly what the equinox is called down there.

 

[NoJo]

I would politely point out that the "Vernal Equinox" is not the beginning of spring in OZ. Instead it is the beginning of autumn and might properly be called the "Autumnal Equinox" down under. However, there is great confusion as to exactly what the equinox is called down there.

I think they call it "fucking poo-tickets."

 

[shereads]

Vernal Equinox would be a good name for a small-town deputy in a TV sitcom. He'd be shunned of course, because the Equinoxes are "not from around here."

 

[NoJo]

Vernal Equinox would be a good name for a small-town deputy in a TV sitcom. He'd be shunned of course, because the Equinoxes are "not from around here."

You'd know. But to me, a Vernal Equinox is a mystical thing, so I think of it as some weird part of a lady's insides that probably doesn't exist.

 

[Guest]

whenever i read vernal equinox
i read it as vernix...
thats that thick white coating babies are born with that protects their skin.

and on another note?
there are these super cool cairns that are in this protected land in groton called the gungywamp... if you go at ... *insert proper time here* the sun aligns on specific points of the cairn.... very fucken cool.

 

[LadyJeanne]

I would politely point out that the "Vernal Equinox" is not the beginning of spring in OZ. Instead it is the beginning of autumn and might properly be called the "Autumnal Equinox" down under. However, there is great confusion as to exactly what the equinox is called down there.

Damn - you're right. I'm flying out tonight, so I'm going to lose St. Patrick's Day somewhere over the Pacific and I'm going to miss the vernal equinox, but I might get the autumnal one although it won't be called an equinox. No, not at all disorienting.

I'll take pictures and sort it all out later.

 

[LadyJeanne]

You'd know. But to me, a Vernal Equinox is a mystical thing, so I think of it as some weird part of a lady's insides that probably doesn't exist.

If I have one, I haven't found it and haven't had a VE-gasm either. I miss out on all the fun.

 

[LadyJeanne]

Or not. You'll like ozzies. It's maybe the most steadfastly egalitarian culture on the earth. Everyone is descended from convicts, so there's no sense putting on airs. And if, perchance, you aren't descended from convicts, you don't let on, because they will take special care to deflate any stuffed shirt. Ozzies are great.

I have never visited Oztraylia, but I have been to New Zealand. Kiwis do not have the egalitarian urge like Ozzies do, but they have Ozzie vowels and they drive on the Ozzie side the road. They garden, is what New Zealanders do. Everyone has a garden, a real one, where the trees count every bit as much as the flowers and the ground cover. Not only that, but every bank has a garden, every gas station, every lunch counter. Sheep, pists and gardens. You'd like New Zealand. Give us a thread with pictures when you come back. Please.

I'm descended from mountain village peasants, and everything in my shirt is 100% natural, no stuffing required, so I should do ok.

I'll take LOTS of pictures...so exciting...