The buzzing of bees on a warm, sunny day. Hearing the coos of a mourning dove. Feeling the sunshine on your face. The idea of spring elicits palpable memories for many people.
Spring officially sprung Tuesday, Brown County — and with it comes sunnier days.
The Earth travels around the sun at an angle. For the majority of the year, the Earth is tilted. During the winter it is tilted away from, and during summer it is tilted toward the sun. The spring and fall Equinoxes are the only times the sun equally reaches both hemispheres of the Earth, making the Equinox night as long as the day. Spring is the return of light and warmth after a not-so-friendly winter.
We sent our reporter Dakota Bruton to the streets of Nashville to ask people what excites them most about spring. The overarching theme? Warm weather— imagine that. We broke down the answers into two groups: weather and flowers.
Which team are you on?
Team Flowers
Mary Bales
“I love seeing the flowers come up, the little Crocuses. They peak their heads up and that is the first sign (of spring). Also the smell of Hyacinth. It hits you as soon as you walk in a store in the spring.”
John Fuller
Indianapolis
“All kinds of flowers popping out, visiting a lot of places and watching the leaces start popping out before the eclipse.”
Olivia Ross
“Flowers”
Dakota Arvizu
“Flowers”
Jeff Ross
“(Excited for) everything to turn green and beautiful”
Team Weather
Maddy B.
Terre Haute
“The thunderstorms”
Quinn Pierce
“The nice weather”
Chelsea Couch
“The weather”
Adalyn Vaught
“The weather”
Kailey Peetz
“The warm weather, it was so cold this winter”
Farrah Fox
“The warm weather”
Amber Neal
“Nice weather”
Sarah Stone
Cloverdale
“We came down to the State Park today.”
Honorable Mention:
Amanda Ross
“Spring break”
