Beyond its religious meaning, Easter is an ancient spring celebration in the Northern Hemisphere. It represents life returning after winter. That’s why so many traditional symbols: eggs, chicks, rabbits, etc., represent themes of fertility.
I’ve been enjoying Easter posts on social media. One local politician even shared a pika, which is a member of the rabbit order Lagomorpha. It was a lovely nod to our wildlife in Alberta.
What Easter-related observations would you like to share?
(It’s better to share a link instead of uploading photos, because iNaturalist pays Discourse monthly fees to host the forum, and big image threads can push storage closer to the monthly limit)
For me, it’s an annual Easter ritual to go see prairie crocuses, which are basically the first flower to pop up here in the northern prairies! (Calgary)
The return of a non-native poppy species to uncultivated areas around my city. They started popping up several years ago in April. Saw the first ones this year today but no photo. Here’s one from a few years ago.
As someone who grew up in a place with no winters, I have discovered much later in my life the feeling of spring. It basically is an emotional moment to see the first leaves and flowers after months of monochrome.
Happy belated Resurrection Day! Some of the things I saw last Sunday, some dragonflies in the yard around my church and two rare crawfish species for Virginia (Cambarus davidi and Cambarus reduncus)
