24 UNDER THE OPEN SKY 



rabbit. So on the first Sunday after the 

 first full moon after the sun crosses the line 

 we celebrate our Easter. It is true that, 

 as we use the clock for a conventional sun, 

 so in finding Easter we use a conventional 

 moon. But in most years the result would 

 be quite the same, and probably is never 

 more than one week out. 



But in the newness of the times we are 

 growing back to a touch with nature; a 

 tender, sympathetic, spiritual touch, closer 

 than any of our forebears ever knew. And 

 so we celebrate the feast with our purest 

 and fairest flowers, a sacrifice more inno- 

 cent than the blood of lambs. And we 

 sprinkle not the door-posts only, but our 

 whole homes and hearts with the sweet 

 offerings of nature's oncoming New Year. 



NATURE'S SPRING PLOWING 



Nature, the most industrious and per- 

 sistent of farmers, is now getting the soil 

 ready for the spring planting. All winter 

 long she has been pushing her frost down 

 into the ground and loosening it up, to make 



