Maya looked out the window at the budding trees. "So the real answer is… it depends?"
Her grandmother nodded. "The real answer is that spring is the time when the world wakes up. But if someone asks you for the months, you can tell them: in most of the Northern Hemisphere, it’s . In the Southern Hemisphere, it’s September, October, and November ." which months are in spring
Her grandmother smiled and pointed to the old calendar hanging by the kitchen window. "That depends on where you are in the world, Maya. Spring is not the same set of months for everyone." Maya looked out the window at the budding trees
"No," her grandmother laughed. "In the Southern Hemisphere—countries like Australia, Brazil, and Argentina—the seasons are reversed. When we have spring, they have autumn." But if someone asks you for the months,
In a small town nestled between rolling hills, a curious young girl named Maya asked her grandmother one crisp evening, "Grandma, when does spring truly begin?"