Denis Wilson from The Nature of Robertson posted a comment to my previous post. Denis, as will be seen from his blog, is a naturalist, birdwatcher, and photographer. So no one misses his beautiful thoughts on the seasons, Miss Eagle is copying them here:As soon as the Winter Solstice passes, and days start to get longer, many things start to grow, (or bud, or flower). It is a huge seasonal divide, which is not noticeable to Eurocentric, and insulated, urbanites. I think country people (and gardeners) might be more in touch with this than true city folk.But the plants and animals know all about it (it is breeding season for Wombats).
Presumably the Aboriginals would have been in tune with this seasonal sense of anticipation (I believe there are many different names for "seasons" in the NT, for example. But I don't know about this in the southern states.I cannot come up with an "appropriate" name, just now. But something like the "return". What about the Italian historical term: "risorgimento" (resurgence) - it sounds better in Italian. It actually encompasses the sense of recovery, and the sense of passion and urgency which turns into the frenetic burst of growth with which we are familiar in Spring.The more I think about that name, the more I like it - "risorgimento".
2 comments:
I am having a second attempt at a name for this in-between season. How about: "Anticipation"?
The American lady Peony growers go crazy about this time of the season, and refer to the plants "poking their little pink noses through the soil".
Noses??? Come on ladies, you can do better than that! But it is always the lady Peony growers who start to comment on it (except for me, you'll observe!).
There is a certain shyness on my part about publicly giving this bud the most appropriate name, which would definitely be gynaecological.
I cannot post an image here, so I have to resort to inviting people to my own blog page, to see this "clitoral" image: http://peonyden.blogspot.com
So, for all of these reasons, I like the term "Anticipation" for this season.
Oh No. Is it "Groundhog Day"? The Americans celebrate Groundhog Day on February 2. Allowing for them to be a bit slow off the mark - have a look at this note from an American website:
"Groundhog Day is our only holiday that focuses squarely on weather. It occurs at a time when weather occupies Northerners' thoughts more thoroughly than at any other time of the year. We know we're still stuck in winter, but enough of the winter has elapsed that we feel we can now justifiably look ahead to the promise of the spring equinox. More than any other holiday, Groundhog Day is the "looking-ahead" holiday, a holiday of transition. We're not so much celebrating the day at hand, February 2, as we are a day that is on our horizon, the spring equinox. The spring equinox is simply being celebrated ahead of time, as Groundhog Day, on February 2."
Of course, their seasons are reversed, and so Feb 2 would relate to our Aug 2.
Allow for our milder climate to start the "urges" earlier and there is a definite similarity.
I can relate to the phrase "looking ahead" holiday.
But I absolutely hated that Movie!
Denis
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