Everything around is waking up, the trees are dressed in green clothes, and the soul becomes warmer and happier. It's Spring…
Spring
Even the air becomes different. Spring is a feeling of novelty in everything that surrounds us. She smells of freshness and flowers. Spring is a wonderful time of the year when people enjoy life, are touched by snowdrops and fall in love without memory.
Feelings are awakened and desires are sharpened. Spring is a great awakening from the shackles of winter. It brings 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 the sap flow of trees.
March
The first month is filled with the murmur of streams and the chirping of birds. March greets mankind with a restless drop and black thawed patches, the first green sprouts and the gentle blue of the high sky.
April
Spring is different this month. She is free and exuberant, filled with solar power. In April, buds bloom on the branches, restless starlings are flooded, 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 nourish forests and gardens, fill all herbs and flowers with vitality. May is the time of love andlilacs. Spring is considered a symbol of youth and vitality.
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 spring can heal us from depression and stress. It is said that with regular contact they cure even serious diseases. In the spring, when Nature wakes up from sleep, you need to go to the forest more often and touch the trees.
Their healing power has been used by people since time immemorial. It has long been known that coniferous trees are capable of delaying pain, making a person reasonable and calmer. Previously, a small log of aspen was even kept at the head of the bed. It purifies the air and takes away many ailments.
It is important to remember that trees can give their energy, but there are also those who take it away. These qualities are especially strong in the spring, during the beginning of sap flow.
Heralds of Spring
Snowdrops are the first to appear after a long winter. For the good news about the beginning of spring, they are loved in all countries where they grow. Their touching tenderness and defenselessness against the backdrop of the snow remaining in some places does not leave anyone 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 chest. According to biblical traditions, the snowdrop was the first flower that Eve, expelled from paradise, saw. The ancient Romans created a legend about the friendship of Galanthus andsnow. The snowdrop led him to the ball to the goddess Flora to show all the flower splendor. Since then, snow has covered the first flower and protected it from frost.
The Germans consider the snowdrop a flower given to winter as a farewell gift. She was not offended and allowed him to bloom, when not all the snow had melted yet.
Poles believe that snowdrops grew to help a girl who needed a flower decoction to save her brother. But there was snow 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 off her necklace and threw the beads so that the groom could find her by them. But there were no pearls to be seen in the snow. Then the forest spirits turned mother-of-pearl beads into white and blue snowdrops, which made their way to the surface and helped the groom find his way to the bride. He freed her, and since then it has been considered that spring is the time of love.
Awakening nature
The first sign of spring is the movement of sap from bushes and trees. It occurs when the soil thaws and water flows from the roots to all plant organs. There are no leaves at this time. Moisture dissolves nutrient stores and carries them to swollen buds. 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, gray alder is the first to bloom. Her flowers are inconspicuous, but the earrings in early spring are clearly visible in the clear air. Worth onlytouch the branch, like a cloud of yellow pollen will be picked up and carried away by the wind.
From herbaceous plants, coltsfoot can tell about the onset of spring. It grows in an open, lit place, along railway embankments, river banks, steep slopes and cliffs. As soon as the snow melts, stems immediately appear with yellow flowers, but without leaves. They grow back after they are ripe and its fruits are sown.
The coltsfoot was named so because its leaves have one side soft and fluffy, warm to the touch, and the other cold, smooth and inhospitable.
The third sign of spring is the flowering of herbaceous perennials in deciduous forests. First, blue or purple liverworts bloom, then anemones, corydalis, and chistyaks. All of them love light and are adapted to flowering in forest conditions, while there are no leaves on trees and shrubs yet.
Spring is the time of love
This time of year, skirts are getting shorter and hormones are more playful. In the eyes of men, all the girls around seem prettier and prettier. Relationships are easy to form in the spring.
Psychologists say that during this period humanity is capable of radical acts, and suggest falling in love with caution. The euphoria of spring relationships is very deceptive and unstable. The main thing is that already existing strong bonds are not destroyed by a fleeting hobby under the influence of hormones.
