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Marche du Nain Rouge
Look at the slide show, y'all. So great.

#Detroit #Michigan #Spring #VernalEquinox

"He said those were the old days and insisted that Detroit is doing fine now — it’s the rest of the world that is now cursed. “I’m going to call a truce this year,” he said. “Detroit, enjoy your hot streak.”

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Detroit Metro TimesDetroit welcomes spring with its 2025 Marche du Nain Rouge parade [PHOTOS]On the Sunday after the vernal equinox metro Detroiters welcome spring with its annual Marche du Nain Rouge parade. A tradition since 2010, the event is something of a combination of Halloween and Carnival and is based on the Nain Rouge (“Red Dwarf”) of folklore said to have cursed the city. While early versions of the parade saw people don costumes and drive the Nain Rouge out of the city, over the years some historians have pointed out that according to the first recorded version of the tale from 1883, the imp should be respected, not reviled. This year festival organizers cast the Nain Rouge in a somewhat different light, and in a speech given at the foot of the Masonic Temple, Detroit’s most misunderstood mythical creature tried to turn over a new leaf. He said those were the old days and insisted that Detroit is doing fine now — it’s the rest of the world that is now cursed. “I’m going to call a truce this year,” he said. “Detroit, enjoy your hot streak.”
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Rob Pegoraro

A spring gardening surprise: green leaves instead of green shoots

So much is terrible in the world right now, but at least I’m not looking at lettuce as a grocery line-item expense on the first day of spring. That’s not because I’ve renounced leafy greens as a sandwich fixing, but because the spinach and some of the arugula that I grew from seed in the fall somehow survived winter.

Alongside them in the raised bed outside the back patio, parsley and, even less likely, cilantro have staged their own late-winter resurrections.

I can’t imagine why even the most fault-tolerant of these plants should have done that. This winter, unlike many in recent years, not only had extended hard freezes but multiple snow days that left that bed buried in snow for days at a stretch. Even building a cold frame should have been inadequate.

Having done nothing to prolong those crops, I should have had to start from scratch about two weeks before today, scattering dirt and seeds and looking forward to seeing the first green shoots emerge from the soil later this month.

(To anybody reading this intimidated by the idea of starting a vegetable garden: It’s hard to screw up arugula in the spring, and it’s also hard to find a recipe that can’t be improved with a little of it.)

Instead, after 20 years of having this questionably-productive hobby, I now need to decide if want to dig up some of these survivors to try growing some lettuce to mix things up. And if this means that my long losing streak of trying to cultivate tomatoes might be due for a change in a couple of months. This unearned gardening luck is not much in the larger scheme of things, but I’ll take it.

Spinach leaves gleam with green in the late-afternoon sun on March 17, 2025. Some of these went into a pot of colcannon that evening.
#arugula#cilantro#gardening
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Your Mythic Life

Ritual fire to welcome the Spring Equinox, which arrived at 5:01 Eastern Time this morning. This afternoon, I ceremonially burned the Yule wreath I made on this past Winter Solstice, December 21, 2024, as well as the greens-festooned star that decorated my gate during the winter holy days.
#spring #equinox #springequinox #vernalequinox #fire #ritual #Ostara #Eostre #Easter #YuleWreath #interfaith #interfaithminister #pagan #heathen #interfaithheathen

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