A festival of colors Mar 10, 2020

A festival of colors

Hindus in India and around the globe are celebrating Holi today, a spring celebration also called the festival of love, or the festival of colors. Why colors? Because these colorful powders are flung in joyous revelry to welcome spring and celebrate the blossoming of love. It is a time to forget old grievances and hope for a bountiful spring harvest season.

© Max Bauerfeind/Shutterstock

palette

Today in History

Mar 10, 2018Johnston Canyon in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
Mar 10, 2019In praise of the pipes
Mar 10, 2021Commemorating the life of a famous railroad conductor
Mar 10, 2022Bobbio, Italy
Mar 10, 2023Vale of Edale, Peak District, England
Mar 10, 2024Daylight saving time
Mar 10, 2025National Napping Day
Mar 10, 2026Bláhver, Hveravellir, Iceland

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Jul 13, 2022International Rock Day
Oct 6, 2022International Geodiversity Day
May 31, 2023World Otter Day
Mar 31, 2025Ostuni, Apulia, Italy
Jul 2, 2023Its Halfway Day!
Jan 13, 2019On the hunt
Nov 20, 2019Atop the roof of Africa
Mar 20, 2026Spring equinox
Apr 8, 2020Santorini through the clouds
Jun 2, 2019An island for the birds
Mar 24, 2026Cherry blossoms at East Lake Cherry Blossom Park, Wuhan, China
Jul 18, 2021Grand finish of Le Tour
Oct 2, 2021A river on the tundra
Nov 19, 2022Zion National Park turns 103
Jul 9, 2019Jaguar in the Pantanal wetlands
Oct 28, 2018Do spirits haunt the Gardens of Versailles?
May 22, 2020The scene of a literary crime
May 6, 2023Azaleas blooming on Hwangmaesan Mountain, South Korea
Oct 8, 2020An underwater rainbow
Feb 14, 2021An oceanic valentine
Aug 10, 2022Joshua Tree National Park
Sep 10, 2019Welcome to my neck of the woods
Nov 21, 2021The Great Glen
Mar 1, 2022Women s History Month
Nov 13, 2018Autumn’s swan song
Nov 11, 2025Marine Corps War Memorial, Arlington, Virginia
Feb 8, 2023Uredd Rest Area, Norway
Oct 19, 2018Portland celebrates its bounty
Feb 24, 2023Mandarin duck, Richmond Park, London, England
Feb 11, 2022harlem