Today is the official first day of spring. Spring is my favorite season. It contains several of my favorite events:

• My birthday
• Mother’s Day
• Easter
• The end of the school year (most years)

I also love the change in weather.

1. I get all jazzed up and happy.
2. Everything seems better.
3. The days are getting longer and brighter.
4. School is winding up.
5. Things smell better.
6. Flowers are blooming.
7. It is warmer.
8. I can stop wearing socks.
9. I can wear short sleeves with no sweater or jacket.
10. New things come alive.

in Just-
spring       when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman

whistles       far       and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old balloonman whistles
far       and       wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it's
spring
and
    the

            goat-footed

balloonMan       whistles
far
and
wee

	-- e. e. cummings

Common date of the Equinox. In astrology, March 21 the day of the Equinox is the first full day of the sign of Aries. It is also the traditional first day of the astrological year; and International Astrology Day.