In a recent Easter pic by rbartrop, the following description line got me thinking:
"Lambs and bunnies are both symbols of spring and rebirth, so what better way to celebrate the season[...]"

Of course, rbartrop (and a good chunk of Weasyl's membership) reside in the Northern Hemisphere where this makes perfect sense, after all this is how celebrations like Christmas and Easter get started with marking the passage of the seasons. But to us south of the Equator in the Southern Hemisphere, such sentiments are six months out of whack to what we actually experience - in this case, Easter is on the doorstep to autumn ("fall" for those readers in North America).

To put it another way, here's how celebration dates would have to move to be applicable to Southern Hemisphere seasons in South America, Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand:

• Christmas / Yule would be at the end of June, and the New Year would start on 1st July.
• Easter would fall somewhere around September and October each year.
• "Spring Break" would be around October and November.

And the same sort of cross-hemisphere inversion applies with things like the "Man in the Moon" - the dark mare ("seas") have always been at the bottom of the Moon's disk as opposed to the top, and I've had to live with textbooks placing the Moon's features "upside down" to what I've observed for the bulk of my life. Ah well, one gets used to such Northern Hemisphere-centric thinking after a while - wouldn't it be fun if all world maps had the South at the top instead of at the bottom? {grin}

('Course, the other difference between us in Australasia and those "up North" is that the all-too-cute "bunnies" down here are noxious environmental pests, and the shooting thereof is considered a public service :-) )