Next on the celestial calendar after Tuesday’s vernal equinox is a penumbral lunar eclipse on the night of Monday, March 25. The full moon will pass through the earth’s shadow between 9:53 p.m. and 2:12 a.m. for us West Coast viewers.

Spring is literally in the air as wind patterns shift and change. In West Marin, the spring winds buffet the land from the northwest, driving warm nearshore surface waters southeast and replacing them with…