A man cooks eggs during celebrations of Cimburijada or "Festival of Scrambled Eggs", in a park in the central Bosnian town of Zenica. People celebrate Cimburijada by gathering by the river, preparing scrambled eggs and sharing breakfast with friends and visitors of their city as a traditional way of marking the first day of spring every year.
Las Fallas Festival: Valencia, Spain
A spring festival celebrating St. Joseph’s Day (March 19), the origins of Las Fallas go back in time to the days when wooden lamps, called parots, were needed to light carpenters’ workshops during the winter. As spring — and St. Joseph’s Day (the patron saint of carpenters) — neared, workers ceremoniously burned the parots, which were no longer needed for light. Over the centuries, the ceremony evolved into a five-day celebration involving the creation and eventual burning of ninots: huge, colorful cardboard, wood, papier-mache and plaster statues. The ninots remain on display for five days until March 19, when at midnight they are all set aflame, except for one chosen by popular vote and then exhibited at a local museum with others from years past.
This is the first day of the Spring (Bengali month Falgun). Celebrated across Bangladesh, there are nu!merous fairs and festivals for this event. Young girls wear basanti (yellow) coloured sarees and decorate their hair with fresh flowers while boys wear pajamas and panjabis in celebration.
Spring wouldn’t be the same in northern India without this annual festival. Celebrated by Hindus, who throw colored powder at each other, this vibrant festival of colors celebrates the season’s many hues, as well as events from Hindu mythology, such as when a devotee of Lord Vishnu was saved from death.
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Widely referred to as the Persian New Year, this annual festival also marks the first day of spring — which is celebrated on the day of the astronomical Northward equinox (usually around March 21). Nowruz is celebrated throughout Central Asia and here, in Kyrgyzstan’s capital city of Bishek.
I was spell checking topiaries and it glitched and posted sorry...
of course spring also brings pillow fight in NYC and around the globe 3Pm til ...? 4/4/2015 this year always the first Saturday of April. Afterward the pillows that survive 1500 last year go to animal shelters
than for a more delicate event the Cherry Blossom festival seaon and special Sakura Matsuri celebration the last weekendis at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. Wednesday April 1 2015 - Sunday April 26 2015. Pure natural beauty all around and the last weekend Taiko Drumming • Cosplay Fashion Show • Tea Ceremonies • Kabuki Dance • Samurai Sword Fighting • Manga Drawing • Vintage Kimonos • Bonsai
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Easter Parade, down 5th Avenue on Easter Sunday 4/5/2015 (this year) just like the Fred Astaire movie except instead of elegant you get lots of wow now! We often go and I have decorated a few hats. This is outside of Rockefeller Center which always has flower toperies too!
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I hope you do not mind too much decorations!
Spring Equinox exactly is not celebrated in India, but there are many festivals around spring.
This starts with the Capricorn Transmigration of the Sun, here are 3 pics for that :
Lohri (Punjab)
Thai Pongal (Keral)
The Ahmedabad kite festival
The real spring festival is the Holi, which unfortunately always falls in the middle of school exams :D It can get pretty rash & rough in North India, but this pic caputures the true spirit, complete with the perfect "tool" an exterior-paints container!
The "Basant Utsav" is a kind of artificial festival, at the same time as Holi, started by th great poet Tagore, celebrated mainly in Shantiniketan. the kids here are wearing "Palaash" flowers in their hair & as garlands.
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Las Fallas Festival: Valencia, Spain A spring festival celebrating St. Joseph’s Day (March 19), the origins of Las Fallas go back in time to the days when wooden lamps, called parots, were needed to light carpenters’ workshops during the winter. As spring — and St. Joseph’s Day (the patron saint of carpenters) — neared, workers ceremoniously burned the parots, which were no longer needed for light. Over the centuries, the ceremony evolved into a five-day celebration involving the creation and eventual burning of ninots: huge, colorful cardboard, wood, papier-mache and plaster statues. The ninots remain on display for five days until March 19, when at midnight they are all set aflame, except for one chosen by popular vote and then exhibited at a local museum with others from years past.
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Widely referred to as the Persian New Year, this annual festival also marks the first day of spring — which is celebrated on the day of the astronomical Northward equinox (usually around March 21). Nowruz is celebrated throughout Central Asia and here, in Kyrgyzstan’s capital city of Bishek.
I was spell checking topiaries and it glitched and posted sorry...
of course spring also brings pillow fight in NYC and around the globe 3Pm til ...? 4/4/2015 this year always the first Saturday of April. Afterward the pillows that survive 1500 last year go to animal shelters
than for a more delicate event the Cherry Blossom festival seaon and special Sakura Matsuri celebration the last weekendis at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. Wednesday April 1 2015 - Sunday April 26 2015. Pure natural beauty all around and the last weekend Taiko Drumming • Cosplay Fashion Show • Tea Ceremonies • Kabuki Dance • Samurai Sword Fighting • Manga Drawing • Vintage Kimonos • Bonsai
Spring Festivals Around the World - Profile Deco Easter Parade, down 5th Avenue on Easter Sunday 4/5/2015 (this year) just like the Fred Astaire movie except instead of elegant you get lots of wow now! We often go and I have decorated a few hats. This is outside of Rockefeller Center which always has flower toperies too!
Thai Pongal (Keral)
The Ahmedabad kite festival
The real spring festival is the Holi, which unfortunately always falls in the middle of school exams :D It can get pretty rash & rough in North India, but this pic caputures the true spirit, complete with the perfect "tool" an exterior-paints container!
The "Basant Utsav" is a kind of artificial festival, at the same time as Holi, started by th great poet Tagore, celebrated mainly in Shantiniketan. the kids here are wearing "Palaash" flowers in their hair & as garlands.
& Soon, the harvest festivals will start. This is Rongali Bihu, the harvest festival of Asom (Assam) celebrations! :)