- Early Spring -- March 25 - April 25
- Mid Spring -- April 25 - May 10
- Late Spring -- May 10 - June 5
- Early Summer -- June 5 - July 1
- Mid Summer -- July 1 - Aug 10
- Late Summer -- Aug 10 - Sept 10
- Early Fall -- Sept 10 - Oct 10
- Late Fall -- Oct 10 - Nov 15
- Winter
mid- to late-Summer's purple love grass, Autumn's tumblegrass
Photo by J. Harrington
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I learn and remember things better as relationships, or patterns, rather than as a series of unrelated factoids. Minnesota's Department of Natural Resources has some worthwhile information on phenology for young naturalists, but the organization is only by the four seasons. I'm becoming more interested in discovering how one season may foretell the next. For example, right now I'm looking at a yard full of unmown grasses with ripening seedheads that, to me, foretell Autumn's impending arrival when purple love grass will tumble across the yard and collect in corners.
The Human Seasons
By John Keats
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;There are four seasons in the mind of man:He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clearTakes in all beauty with an easy span:He has his Summer, when luxuriouslySpring's honied cud of youthful thought he lovesTo ruminate, and by such dreaming highIs nearest unto heaven: quiet covesHis soul has in its Autumn, when his wingsHe furleth close; contented so to lookOn mists in idlenessto let fair thingsPass by unheeded as a threshold brook.He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,Or else he would forego his mortal nature.
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