Spring in Edmonton

Spring 2019 in Northern Hemisphere began on  (All dates are in Mountain Time.)

Wednesday, March 20
and ends on
Friday,June 21

Spring is so welcoming in Edmonton due to the long and cold winter season. Early Spring is almost sunny with dry weather. There are few snow showers and rains in this season. People, tired of long winter, severely cold weather, and indoor stay, jump onto the ground with bikes and kids to celebrate the weather as a festival. In Alberta, we see snow still melting in rivers and lakes. In mid spring, we can see green grass and flowers blooming. 'Early showers brings May flowers" is a popular saying among Albertan. 

Sweeper trucks, broom machine show up  on the streets to clean up the dust and debris from winter rock chips. We can see multiple potholes on the roads because of the  snow in the winter. Pothole repair trucks work day and night to make roads safe for the crazy drivers. 

National park and other local park crew start working overtime to maintain grass, clean up the winter debris and adding extra recreational activities for the visitors. Gardeners start germinating vegetable seeds in the mid spring so that they can enjoy the plantation late spring or early summer. Although Spring is little early to the campers and the fisherman, so many of them already bundled up with the camping gears and drive into the bush. There are many camp sites open on early Spring for the reservation. However, most of the comfort camping sites are booked in a couple of hours of its opening. People do not care little wind or the rain drops. 

Spring season is the best one for the sun bather and strollers since the sun is not too hot yet and bugs aren't aggressive yet on your cheek. Kids like sliding, biking, bouncing, running. They do not like to stay home in the evenings. The days are longer than the winter seasons. We can enjoy mildest heat of the sun and litter chiller wind. Geese return to the prairie in the early spring. Most of the lakes turn to be colorful with Canadian geese and other small birds. Bunnies change the color to fit with the nature and honeybees zoom onto the flowers to suck the nectar. Magpie, English sparrow, sea gulls, ceder waxwing, grouse, robin were hiding and nesting in the bush.
Sylvan  and  Wabamun  are two big lakes near Edmonton. Alberta Beach is also popular in the summer season. Campers like Wabamun camping ground for camping with variety of shed and shelters. There is also campground in Alberta beach. Elk Island park is another summer destination. People visit this park for fishing, hiking, biking, camping. There are Moose, Elk, Deer, Coyote, Marmot, Wolf  in this park. Bird watching could be the another part of fun act. Besides, many people visit Drumheller, south of Edmonton in the late spring or, early summer. Drumheller has one if the worlds largest dinosaur museum. People from all over the world come to visit this place. The weather is hot during spring and summer season. Since this place is in between Edmonton and Calgary, most of the people stop here while travelling from either way.
Bike riding is one of the exciting recreation activities of Albertans. There is over 160 km paved bike trails in Edmonton area. The breathtaking view of the river valley trail make people forget about the stress of long hour work. "I have been riding bike since my childhood around this area", Mrs Julio Murphy, fifty years old lady told me. " This bike make me forget my age. As soon as I mount on the seat and start paddling, I turn to be twenty. Guys like you crane their neck every time", she giggled. She had no wrinkles on her face. Muscles in her legs, thigh and arms look perfect athlete.
A lady with two kids, one five and another ten said, "I almost every day come here with these boys for biking. They love it. When I follow them here I don't have to hide remote and make them sad". She looked unmarried in her leggings and t-shirts. Her smile was like a open sky after rain with rainbows.
City of Edmonton organizes many family festivals throughout spring and summer offering multiple activities to boost mental and physical health. Besides, there are numerous musical festivals on the park to attract music lovers from different communities. Some communities offer barbecue party to the community members. They have different spring and summer activities. Rogers Place, River Cree casino, Alberta campus jubilee stadium organize multiple concerts during this season.
Jurassic Quest (June 7-9), Bone fire festival (April 4-13), GOBfest  ( April 12-15) Edmonton poetry festival ( April 22-28)  and many other festivals provide different tastes of art and culture to Edmonton. Most of the families from different cultural background have their own programs supported by the City of Edmonton.
Nepali community also celebrates Happy New Year in the month of April organizing musical program. They often invite artists from Nepal and also provide stage to the local artist. New Year celebration helps bonding Nepali families and friends living in Edmonton and its closest surroundings.