![Sunrise on spring equinox](https://amanandhishoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/sunrise-on-vernal-equinox-2022.jpg)
Sunrise on a calm spring equinox. It happened here at 8:33 this morning. Yesterday’s pouring rain lifted and there was blue sky behind the clouds this morning.
At 8:33 this morning I decided to look online to see at what time the solstice happened today and was surprised to read it was happening now, at 8:33 in the morning. How fortuitous was that?
The drab winter colors are changing to spring’s wonderful hues. Soon, winter will be but a memory. Each night the frogs sing louder at night. Every day there are more birds flying in.
![Sunrise on spring equinox](https://amanandhishoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/sunrise-on-vernal-equinox-2022b.jpg)
![Snow, the duck, having breakfast.](https://amanandhishoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/snow-on-equinox.jpg)
This spring, wood ducks have taken to eating the ducks’ feed and hanging out at the pond. They’re getting used to my presence and don’t automatically fly off screaming when I show up.
![Our ducks having breakfast.](https://amanandhishoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/ducks-on-equinox.jpg)
What do our ducks think about the wood ducks? For the most part they leave them alone. At first there were just a few wood ducks, then five, then ten, and more. But they are nowhere near as plentiful as the snow geese having their last grazing on the pastures in the valley.
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The snow geese have yet to leave for Alaska and Siberia. On Friday a huge flock of them covered much of a pasture on the way to the post office. Flocks of snow geese, herds of swans, those are winter scenes that will be gone in a few weeks. But new, wonderful things, cherry trees in full bloom, potatoes sprouts, and spring rainbows will come. It really feels like the spring equinox . From now on there is more light than dark, more warmth than cold.