Celebrate Ostara with us!

Saturday, March 23, 2024 at the Minnesota Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, downstairs in the Fellowship Hall. We join to celebrate the changing season – lengthening days and warm weather, green shoots in the flower beds… the robins and red-wing blackbirds call us to join…

Changes

The light is changing! The robins and geese are back! Tulips and daylilies are sending their first leaves up! Early March: suddenly the days seem so much longer – and they are. We have a whole hour more sunlight each day than we did…

Goodbye, sunflowers!

The wheel turns. Lughnasad’s big, beautiful sunflowers have been picked over by the goldfinches, and now the squirrels have started biting them off and carrying them away. The plants are struggling to keep making flowers, but the wheel of the year keeps turning. Their…

Welcome Spring – Happy Ostara

The Spring Equinox came on Monday, March 20th at approximately 4:24pm (for the northern hemisphere – for those in the southern hemisphere, this time marks the beginning of their fall). From the perspectives of astronomy, physics, at the like, this is a time when…