Frühling läßt sein Blaues Band... ( Spring lets its blue ribbon...)

➽ 1. März 2016: Meteorologischer Frühlingsanfang - March 1st 2016: meteorological beginning of spring

➽ The favorite German spring poem which all schoolkids have to learn:

It's spring (Eduard Mörike, 1828)

Spring lets its blue ribbon
flutter in the breeze again;
Sweet, familiar scents
drift with promises over the land.
Already the violets are dreaming,
longing to unfold.
— Hark, a harp sound so faint from afar!
Spring, it's you!
I can hear you coming!
(my translation, unfortunately no rhyme in English ;-D)