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Nature's way of telling you nothing good lasts, but it comes back.
means Happening, available, or characteristic of a particular time of year, rather than lasting all year round.
from From 'season,' which came through Old French 'seison' from Latin 'satio' — literally 'a sowing,' the act of planting seed. So a 'season' was originally the right time to put seeds in the ground, and 'seasonal' still carries that ancient sense of the calendar dividing the year into windows when certain things can and cannot happen. (The cooking sense of 'season,' as in salt and pepper, shares the same root by a different path — to 'season' food once meant to ripen or mature it.)
- Pumpkin spice
- Original recipe contains zero actual pumpkin
- Tree rings
- Each ring is one full seasonal cycle recorded
- Vivaldi
- Painted all four seasons in violin by 1725
- Affective shift
- Winter light loss reshapes brain serotonin levels
- Migration
- Arctic terns chase summer pole to pole yearly
monsoon — annual wind pattern affecting south asia, africa, and australia with predictable timing each year
migration of arctic terns — birds traveling 44,000 miles annually between arctic and antarctic, longest migration on earth
cherry blossom bloom japan — sakura peak in late march to early april, tracked nationally with predicted bloom dates