Spring 2011
After a long winter, spring is finally here. View a gallery from around the world of the celebration of spring.
Section:Gallery
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This Harmony Dwarf Iris was blooming through the morning rain in Coeur d'Alene on Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Kathy Plonka The Spokesman-Review Buy this photo
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In this Thursday, March 24, 2011 photo, Maureen Wierzbicki, left, and her husband Chris, right, from Bainbridge Island enjoy a spring picnic with their son Hank, center, 10 months, at Silverdale Waterfront Park in Silverdale, Wash.
Larry Steagall Kitsap Sun
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Belarus women dance as they take part in a Slavic "Spring welcome" festival in the village of Viazynka, some 40 km (25 miles) northwest of Minsk, Saturday, March 26, 2011.
Sergei Grits Associated Press
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People enjoy the sunny spring weather in front of the Glyptothek museum in Munich, southern Germany, on Tuesday, March 29, 2011.
Matthias Schrader Associated Press
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"I love this sunshine," said Gabrielle Lewis as she and fellow North Idaho College student, Tim Workman, enjoy the 50 degree weather at NIC Beach in Coeur d'Alene on Wednesday, March 23, 2011.
Kathy Plonka The Spokesman-Review Buy this photo
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Water spills over the Nine Mile Dam operated by Avista on Thursday, March 24, 2011.
Christopher Anderson The Spokesman-Review Buy this photo
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A Great Blue Heron drops down into the stadium and glides across the outfield as the Tampa Bay Rays faced the Pittsburgh Pirates in a spring training baseball game in Port Charlotte, Fla., Friday, March 25, 2011.
Charles Krupa Associated Press
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A bee flies to a crocus flower on a warm, sunny early spring day in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, March 31, 2011, when temperature of 17 degrees Celsius (63 degrees Fahrenheit) were recorded.
Czarek Sokolowski Associated Press
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Chicago White Sox's Omar Vizquel, right, signs autographs before the White Sox's spring training baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds on Monday, March 28, 2011, in Glendale, Ariz.
Nam Huh Associated Press
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Brad Snead walks past melting ice on the Cook Inlet beach, Saturday, March 26, 2011, in Kenai, Alaska, while looking for agates.
M. Moon Peninsula Clarion
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Lauri Costello works against the wind as she rides her bike along the old Ben Burr railroad line enroute to Tower Mountain on Thursday, March 24, 2011.
Christopher Anderson The Spokesman-Review Buy this photo
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In this photo taken March 27, 2011, the spring runoff is all downhill now with mountain snow melt accumulating in ever-increasing streams, like this creek above Orofino, Idaho, adding to one another until is all reaches the Clearwater River and eventually the ocean in North Central Idaho.
Barry Kough Lewiston Tribune
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Spring buds are seen on a tree near the New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton, N.J., during a light rain Thursday, March 31, 2011.
Mel Evans Associated Press
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In this Thursday, March 24, 2011 photo, Gary Witt from Portland, Ore., who is visiting his mom and dad in Bremerton scans for birds from the Lions Park Dock, as a warm spring day arrived with the Olympic Mountians in the background, in Bremerton, Wash.
Larry Steagall Kitsap Sun
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Cam Eberhart, 23, of Albany, Ore., loses his board as he "winch boards" over a jump while being filmed by friend Brady Webster, 18, of Albany, Ore., Thursday March 24, 2011 at Bryant Park in Albany, Ore. Eberhart, who is on spring break from his student teaching duties at North Albany Middle School, uses a 6 hp motor to winch 400-feet of rope over a course of jumps that him and three friends set up at the park, which regularly floods when the WIllamette River rise in the winter. Eberhart and his friends having been doing the "winching" for 5 years.
Mark Ylen Albany Democrat-Herald