At 6:02 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, March 20, the sun crossed directly over the Earth's equator during a moment known as the vernal equinox when both day and night are about equal -- also the official start of the new season. The seasons are reversed for those in the Southern Hemisphere and the event instead signals the beginning of Fall. Spring will last three months until June 21.

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One of my favorite house plants: a Kalanchoe that has both pink and orange flowers on the same plant from the same root stalk. I've never seen (or heard of) another one like it. It is one of a kind.