Once we get into February, although we are in winter still, spring is definitely on the way, although according to a meteorological calendar we are still in the third winter month. it does seem that the season has changed though, and the quality of daylight seems to have changed; we’ve had ‘spring’ flowers in the fields around here for weeks now, but no doubt we will have more snow and frost before the season properly changes.
February always seems a peculiar month as it only has twenty-eight days, except in leap years of course. The word, February, always causes people learning English a problem, the two ‘r’s so close to each other makes it awkward to say. it was named by the Romans and was a month for purification; most but not all European languages have a name which has a similar derivation, from the original Latin.
February is the month my parents married, the month of several friends and relations birthdays, Valentine’s day, it is St Brigid’s day today, also known as Imbolc, and it is Thinking Day in the Scouts and Guides association. There are many other special commemorative days and saints days. There are two astrological signs in February Aquarius and Pisces and flowers associated with the month are violets and primroses.
Lois Elsden 
Although our flowers are still a long way off here in Vermont, the light is brighter and lasting longer into the afternoon hours; and yes, one can feel a shift. Thank you for the sweet reminder!
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In february in Canada and the States we have ground hog day. They wake up the sleeping rodent and if he sees his shadow we have six more weeks of winter and if not we get an early spring. It’s all a load of crap and most of us just want to strangle the little bastard. March is the cruelest month here because we somehow equate it with spring and it never fails to let us down. Thank God for beer!
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Thank you for explaining that… I’ve seen people writing about groundhog day and i had no idea what it was… I didn’t know if it was when you could begin shooting them or something!
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I think burning them at the stake would be more fun. I think the whole tradition was started by those insidious Heckawees to warp the whitemans minds.
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Those damn Heckawees!!
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