Signs of Spring
Next Sunday will be the vernal equinox, the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, despite continued wintry conditions in a few places. As the sunlight becomes more prevalent, people, plants, and animals are beginning to emerge from their winter modes to step outside, bloom, and otherwise welcome the sunshine. These photos show festivals and glimpses of the new season from around the world, as we shake off the winter and greet the spring.
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California poppies bloom near Caliente on March 4, 2016, west of Tehachapi, California. #David McNew / Getty
An abandoned lamb is carried by a herdsman on the Sensen Spring Pasture in Qiaga Township of Damxung County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, on February 25, 2016. As spring comes, herdsmen living on the 5,000-meter-high Sensen Spring Pasture in Qiaga Township of Damxung County are busy with delivering Tibetan lambs. #Chogo / Xinhua Press / Corbis
Dewdrops on grass in the sunshine at the wetland of Poyang Lake in Duchang County, east China's Jiangxi province, on March 2, 2016. #Fu Jianbin / Xinhua / Corbis
A woman with two children walk on a dock in the Jadebusen (Jade Bay) in Dangast on the North Sea coast, northwestern Germany, on February 28, 2016. #Julian Stratenschulte / AFP / Getty
People exercise among Daffodils in St James's Park on March 14, 2016, in London, England. #Dan Kitwood / Getty
Fans wait for autographs before a spring training baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the Cincinnati Reds on March 13, 2016, in Peoria, Arizona. #Darron Cummings / AP
Crocuses are covered by snow on March 1, 2016, in Munich. #Sven Hoppe / AFP / Getty
A picture taken on March 9, 2016, shows waves crashing onto the shore and the Four lighthouse in Porspoder, France. #Fred Tanneau / AFP / Getty
Servicemen of the Belarussian Interior Ministry's special forces unit take part in a presentation during Maslenitsa celebrations at their base in Minsk, Belarus, on February 28, 2016. Maslenitsa is a pagan holiday marking the end of winter celebrated with pancake eating and shows of strength. #Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters
People burn a straw-wood-and-cloth effigy representing Mother Winter on March 13, 2016, close to the city of Baikonur in celebration of Maslenitsa, a farewell ceremony to winter. #Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Getty
People take pictures of the burning symbol of spring, which looks like a brown bear emerging from his den. The bear was created by Hungarian artist Gabor Miklós Szoke for the festival in Gorky Park during a celebration of Maslenitsa, or Shrovetide in Moscow, Russia, on March 13, 2016, with the building of the National Defense Center of Russian Defense Ministry in the background. #Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP
A man climbs up a 9-meter-high wooden pole to get a prize during Maslenitsa celebrations at the Bobrovy Log ski resort in the suburbs of Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia, on March 13, 2016. #Ilya Naymushin / Reuters
An effigy is burned during the Maslenitsa festival near the Abramtsevo estate, Moscow, Russia. #Sergei Fadeichev / TASS / Corbis
The river Coupall runs in front of the mountain Buachaille Etive Mor near Ballachulish, Scotland, on March 9, 2016. #Russell Cheyne / Reuters
A goose washes in the lake in St James's Park on March 14, 2016, in London, England. #Dan Kitwood / Getty
Plants are displayed during the Royal Horticultural Society's Early Spring Fair on February 16, 2016, in London, England. #Dan Kitwood / Getty
Two women enjoy a sunny warm morning laying on the ground in Central Park in New York on March 9, 2016. #Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty
A couple walks their dog and take pictures on a road after heavy snowfall between Las Machorras and the ski resort of Lunada, near Espinosa de los Monteros, in the northern province of Burgos, Spain, on March 13, 2016. #Cesar Manso / AFP / Getty
Cattle walk through wildflowers near California State Route 223 on March 4, 2016, west of Tehachapi, California. Despite hopes that the major El Niño effect would bring drought-busting rains to southern California, the storms have been missing the region, delivering only half the rain of a normal year. After a brief period of heavy rain in January, Southern California experienced one of the hottest Februarys ever recorded, prompting early scenic wildflower blooms in several desert and foothill regions. #David McNew / Getty
A bird silhouetted by the sun sits on the hand of a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin in the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on March 12, 2016. #Dmitri Lovetsky / AP
A surfer rides a wave near the snowy beach of Unstad, in the Lofoten Islands, Norway, on March 9, 2016. #Olivier Morin / AFP / Getty
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