
I have the good fortune of living in a part of the world that has four distinct seasons. None are extreme, each has its highlights and the ever-changing landscape and lifestyle that comes with seasonal change makes life interesting.

Nature's time of re-birth and awakening after a long and in many places arduous winter. It is as if the leaves appeared overnight. The colors of Spring radiant in their debut.

Paint me the autumn colors
I'm so in awe of them
paint me, the golden streets
bathed in the rainbow's blend
Paint me flowers my friend
on the turf, and on them trees
breaking free from their strands
and posing with the shredded leaves
All Earth's Seasons Now Arrive Two Days Earlier, Researchers ReportSource: Science Daily
Not only has the average global temperature increased in the past 50 years, but the hottest day of the year has shifted nearly two days earlier, according to a new study by scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University.
Spring Coming Earlier, Study SaysSource: National Geographic
Tired of winter? Good news: Spring arrives an average of 1.7 days earlier now than it did in the first half of the 20th century, according to a new study.

Winter covers the ground with it's icy, white cloak.
Shivering, I stand and gaze out at the frigid landscape.
Bare trees stand tall in the distance, leaves long gone, reaching naked up to the sun as if begging for a little warmth.
Natural Allergy ReliefSource: WebMD Health
If spring and fall send your seasonal allergies into a spin, many experts say look to Mother Nature for relief that can be as comforting and easy as a day at the beach.

Life, like seasons, slowly passes onward
As childhood hopes transform to mature dreams
Never standing, ever moving forward
As simple plans transform to complicated schemes.
Sweet is youth and so too is joyous spring
Where gentle rain bring flowers sweetest blooms,
And carefree da …
"Jersey Boys" Biggest FanSource: The Minneapolis Star Tribune
A Groupie Who's Not a Groupie.
This poor lady has never met her idols "The Four Seasons".
Why Stars Have SeasonsSource: Live Science
Have you ever wondered why most star patterns are associated with specific seasons of the year? Just why, for instance, can evening sky watchers in the Northern Hemisphere enjoy Orion the Hunter only during the cold wintry months? During balmy summer evenings it is not Orion, but …
SPACE.com -- Full Moon Names for 2008Source: Space.com
Full moon names were bestowed by the Native Americans of what is now the northern and eastern United States. A few hundred years ago, those tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full moon.
History of BirthdaysSource:
Before humans had a way of keeping time, no one paid much attention to the anniversary of important events, such as birthdays.

Last winter I started a project in which I explored a season through music. I made playlists for each season filled with the music that really put me a mood matching each time of year.

In the week before Thanksgiving, I noticed the bright red leaves on a crepe (sometimes spelled crape) myrtle bush by my deck. I got out my digital camera and got close to it. You'll see from photos here that what at first seems red, is a mix of other colors, as well.
Cold planet: The many ice ages of MarsSource: PhysOrg.com
Mars has experienced 40 major ice ages over the past five million years, when vast areas of its porous soil froze and thawed again, according to computer simulations released on Wednesday.
The changes mainly result from Mars' angle of rotation, which is so extreme that the Red P …
Sex ends as seasons shift and kisspeptin levels plummetSource: EurekAlert!
A hormone implicated in the onset of human puberty also appears to control reproductive activity in seasonally breeding rodents, report Indiana University Bloomington and University of California at Berkeley scientists in the March 2007 issue of Endocrinology.