Everything wakes up around, trees dress in green clothes, and the soul becomes warmer and happier. It is spring...
Spring
Even the air becomes different. Spring is a feeling of novelty in everything that surrounds us. It smells of freshness and flowers. Spring is a great time of the year when people enjoy life, are touched by snowdrops and fall in love without memory.
Feelings awaken and desires intensify. Spring is a great awakening from winter shackles. She carries sincere delight and seething joy. Spring is March, April and May. Only three months, and how much they mean in our lives! In nature, spring begins with sap flow of trees.
March
The first month is filled with the murmur of streams and the bird's hubbub. March greets humanity with a restless drop and black thawed spots, the first green shoots and the gentle blue of the high sky.
April
Spring is already different this month. She is free and violent, filled with solar power. In April, buds open on branches, restless starlings are poured, young grass turns green on the southern slopes.
May
Now we can say with confidence that spring has come. The first thunderstorms and warm rains feed the forests and gardens, fill with life force all the herbs and flowers. May is a time of love and lilac. Spring is considered a symbol of youth and love of life.
Spring in the forest
Long walks among the trees contribute to the improvement of the body better than any medicine. A person is charged with positive energy, good mood. Trees in the spring can cure us of depression and stress. They say that with regular contact they cure even serious diseases. In spring, when Nature awakens from sleep, one needs to walk more often into the forest and touch the trees.
Their healing power has been used by people since time immemorial. It has long been known that conifers are capable of delaying pain, making a person reasonable and more calm. Previously, at the head of the bed they even kept a small log of aspen. It purifies the air and takes away many ailments.
It is important to remember that trees can give their energy, but there are those that take it. These qualities are especially pronounced in the spring, during the onset of sap flow.
Heralds of Spring
Snowdrops are the first to appear after a long winter. For the good news of the beginning of spring, they are loved in all the countries where they grow. Their touching tenderness and defenselessness against the background of snow still remaining in some places leaves no one indifferent. These spring flowers are mentioned in various traditions and legends.
The Greeks call them "milk": they say, these are drops of milk that Apollo's mother dropped from her breast. According to biblical tradition, the snowdrop was the first flower that Eve expelled from paradise saw. The ancient Romans created the legend of the friendship of galanthus and snow. Snowdrop led him to a ball to the goddess Flora to show all the floral splendor. Since then, snow has covered the first flower and protected it from frost.
The Germans consider the snowdrop to be a flower given to winter goodbye. She was not offended and allowed him to bloom, when not all the snow had melted yet.
Poles believe that snowdrops have grown to help a girl who needed a flower decoction to save her brother. But snow lay all around, and then they took pity and sprouted through it.
Slavic legend says that the first flowers sprouted from pearls. When the girl was kidnapped by robbers, she tore her necklace and threw beads so that the groom could find her on them. But no pearls were visible in the snow. Then the forest spirits turned the pearl beads into white and blue snowdrops, which made their way to the surface and helped the groom find the way to the bride. He freed her, and since then it is believed that spring is a time of love.
Awakening of nature
The first sign of spring is the movement of juices in shrubs and trees. It occurs when the soil is thawed and water flows from the roots to all plant organs. There are no leaves at this time. Moisture dissolves nutrient reserves and carries them to swollen kidneys. First of all, sap flow begins at the maple, then at the birch.
The second sign is the flowering of wind-pollinated representatives of the plant world. In the middle lane the gray alder blooms first. Her flowers are inconspicuous, but the earrings in early spring are clearly visible in the clear air. One has only to touch the branch, as a cloud of yellow pollen will be picked up and carried away by the wind.
Of herbaceous plants, coltsfoot can tell about the onset of spring. It grows in an open, illuminated place, along railway embankments, river banks, steep slopes and cliffs. As soon as the snow melts, immediately appear stems with yellow flowers, but without leaves. They grow back when its fruits ripen and are sown.
Coltsfoot was so named because its leaves have one side soft and fluffy, warm to the touch, and the other cold, smooth and unfriendly.
The third sign of spring is the flowering of herbaceous perennials in deciduous forests. First, blue or purple liverworts bloom, then anemones, corydalis, cleaners. They all love light and are adapted to bloom in the forest, while there are no leaves on the trees and shrubs.
Spring is the time of love
At this time of year, skirts become shorter and hormones are more playful. In the eyes of men, all the girls around seem prettier and more charming. In spring, relationships are easily tied.
Psychologists say that during this period, humanity is capable of radical actions, and offer to fall in love with caution. The euphoria of spring relationships is very deceptive and unstable. The main thing is that existing strong bonds should not be destroyed by fleeting enthusiasm under the influence of hormones.