To celebrate the spring equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the official first day of spring, here are some springtime scenes from around the world.
Art:
💥Sumiyoshi Hirosada
💥Isaac Levitan
💥Frederick Walker
💥Indian painting, made around 1700
An inscription on the top of the work features a verse from poet Keshavdas’ Baramasa (song of the seasons): ‘The earth and sky are filled with fragrant breezes blowing gently. All around there is fragrant beauty. But the fragrance is blinding for the bee and painful for the lover who is away from home. The nayika says to her beloved, “I pray you having taught me the pleasures of love making, do not talk of leaving in the month of Vaisakh, as the arrows of Kama (the God of love) are hard to bear in separation.”’
