knowing it is springtime

THE WORLD IS FULL OF MAGIC THINGS, PATIENTLY WAITING FOR OUR SENSES TO GROW SHARPER. W.B. Yeats

I wonder if we could learn a thing or two, if we consider the warmth of kindness encouraging already-started growth in people across from us.

I hope you can enjoy the warmth, sunshine and flowers today, 

and be nice to someone today, dear Friends.

Happy Sunday! 

US National Arboretum horticulturalist Scott Aker explains what signals budding of trees in spring in a video by The Atlantic. Aker explains how trees don’t start the process of budding just because temperatures get warmer, but instead that the process is triggered by the changing levels of the photoreceptor phytochrome as nights shorten. The warmth of spring then encourages the already-started bud growth.

via {laughing squid}