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April 5, 2010 |
Signs of Spring, 2010
The Northern Hemisphere once more begins its tilt towards the Sun, awakening flowers, ushering in new life, and coaxing people outdoors once again. The changing of the season is easily observed in gardens, parks, zoos, farms, festivals and more. Collected here are a handful of photographs showing signs of Spring, 2010, as the final remnants of last winter start to melt away. (27 photos total)

Flowers are seen in Carlsbad, north of San Diego, California, March 29, 2010. The nearly fifty acres of Giant Tecolote Ranunculus flowers that make up The Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch are in a full bloom for approximately six to eight weeks each year, from early March through early May. (GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images) #

A lamb is given shelter from cold weather in the kitchen of a farm house near Cushendun, County Antrim, Northern Ireland on April 2, 2010. Severe weather in Northern Ireland has resulted in farmers losing large numbers of newly born lambs and thousands of homes left without electricity. (REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton) #

Iraqi Kurds celebrate the Nowruz spring festival with fireworks in the Kurdish town of Akra in Iraq's Mosul region, 500 kms north of Baghdad, on March 20, 2010. The Persian new year, which coincides with the vernal (Spring) equinox, is a Zoroastrian tradition celebrated by Iranians and Kurds. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images) #

The top of the Washington Monument is through one of the cherry trees in the Washington Monument grove on April 2, 2010 in Washington, DC. The Japanese Government gave 3,800 Yoshino trees to Lady Bird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon Johnson, as gifts for her beautification of Washington project in 1965. (TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images) #

A group of tourists watch as a gray whales emerges from the water at the San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California Sur, Mexico on February 28, 2010. A small-scale whale-sightseeing industry was developed in the remote spot of San Ignacio Lagoon, off Mexico's northwest Baja California peninsula, where gray whales breed and nurse their calves each year after migrating thousands of miles from Canada and Alaska. (OMAR TORRES/AFP/Getty Images) #

Honey the reindeer keeps a close eye on her newly born calf at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station in Fairbanks, Alaska on April 1, 2010. The 17-pound male, whose name will be determined by submitted suggestions, is the first reindeer birth of the year. (AP Photo/The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, John Wagner) #

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama plants seedlings with schoolchildren from Bancroft and Hollin Meadows Elementary Schools during the annual Spring Garden Planting event held in the White House Kitchen Garden March 31, 2010 in Washington, DC. Mrs. Obama sponsors the event to teach children the importance of eating healthy foods and to encourage children to spend time outdoors. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) #

Workers carry beach chairs along the beach of St. Peter-Ording at the North Sea, northern Germany, as temperatures reached ten degrees Celsius (50 Fahrenheit) on Tuesday, March 23, 2010. Tourist centers set up approximately 300.000 beach chairs along Germany's coastlines of the North Sea and Baltic Sea with the beginning of this year's tourist season. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper) #
More links and information
Spring Harvest of Debt for Parched Farms in Southern China - NYTimes.com, 5/4