Orchids open in the early morning sunshine at Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Wisley on April 12, 2011 in Wisley, England. There are 600 varieties of Orchid on display and The Glasshouse will host a meeting of the Orchid Society of Great Britain Show on April 30, 2011. #

Sandhill cranes take flight near Gibbon, Nebraska on March 23, 2011. About half a million sandhill cranes stop along an 80-mile stretch of the Platte River for three to four weeks each spring in March and April before continuing their journey to Canada, Alaska and Siberia. #

A newborn lamb plays among ewes after being released into a field for the first time at Barracks Farm on April 1, 2011 in Fetcham, England. Three hundred ewes are lambing at the farm owned by the Conisbee family, which supplies their own butcher shops in nearby Horsley. The business has been run by generations of Conisbees for more than 250 years. #

A spring snowstorm blankets the south rim of the Grand Canyon, Saturday, April 9, 2011, in northern Arizona. Much of Arizona was hit by a late winter storm Saturday that brought rain to the Phoenix metro area and snow to the Grand Canyon and the mountains around Flagstaff. #

Detroit Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera reaches for a baseball while signing autographs before an MLB spring training game with the New York Yankees in Tampa, Florida, March 29, 2011. #

A man and boys walk on a street covered with rose-petals spread by wholesale dealers for dry them to supply in market, Sunday, April 10, 2011 in outskirt of Lahore, Pakistan. #

An effigy burns during the finale of the Fallas festival, which welcomes spring and honors Saint Joseph's Day, in Valencia, Spain, in the early hours of March 20, 2011. Fallas are giant elaborate sculptures and effigies made of wood and plastic which are burned at the end of the week-long spectacle of processions, fireworks, music and dancing. #

A rotation of a cloud is seen over Merrill, Wisconsin. on Monday, April 10, 2011. Spring thunderstorms with strong winds, hail and tornadoes injured three people and damaged buildings, power lines and trees in Wisconsin. #

Large trees are seen snapped in two in Pulaski, Virginia, Saturday, April 9, 2011, after a tornado ripped through the area Friday night, causing severe damage to homes in the Pulaski and Draper areas of Pulaski County. #

A brick wall with window lies on the ground in Pulaski, Virginia, Saturday, April 9, 2011 after a tornado ripped through the Pulaski and Draper areas of Pulaski County Friday evening. #

Snowplows are used to clear floodwater from Interstate 29 on April 11, 2011 near Argusville, North Dakota. Although the Red River crested in nearby Fargo on Saturday at 38.75 feet, the fourth-highest flood on record, areas north of the city were still experiencing near-record flooding. #

A competitor guides her reindeer during a reindeer race at the Festival of the North in Murmansk April 3, 2011. The annual festival takes place so that local residents of Russia's north can welcome spring and mark the end of the long winter with various winter sports competitions. #

Boys jump in the water on the first sunny day of spring in Malmo, Sweden, April 2, 2011. Temperature in Malmo reached 17 degrees Celsius (63 degrees Fahrenheit), signaling the end of an unusually long and hard winter. #

People stand in line to climb the Pyramid of the Sun in the pre-hispanic city of Teotihuacan on the outskirts of Mexico City March 20, 2011. Thousands of Mexicans and tourists gather in Teotihuacan every year to welcome the spring equinox. #

A baby chick is pictured in this photo from the Legare Farms near Charleston, South Carolina. Legare Farms has tapped the growing agriculture tourism market, launching a "Rent-A-Chick" program just in time for Easter. #

Kurt Frieden's hot air balloon is pulled through a rapeseed field for landing near the city of Geneva, Switzerland, on April 10, 2011. Thirty balloons took part in the 5th Montgolfiades balloon festival which takes place from April 8 to 10. The balloons took off in various parks in the city center and landed in the nearby countryside. #

A Canada goose nests in an urn as a deer keeps a watchful eye at Forest Lawn cemetery in Buffalo, New York April 8, 2011. For at least four days, the buck stood guard near the nest of the goose as she sat on her eggs inside a large urn at the cemetery, home to the remains of President Millard Fillmore and rock icon Rick James. #

Ray Fisher jogs around a horse track with Faith N Moon, left, and Pacific Mariner, right, during the mild spring weather in Akron, New York, Thursday, April 7, 2011. #

Luna Lutz visits at a tree with 9,800 Easter eggs at the garden of pensioner couple Christa and Volker Kraft in Saalfeld, Germany, Monday, April 11, 2011. The Kraft family have decorated their tree for Easter for more than forty years. #